Mary Augusta Ward Quotes
But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
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Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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I've always watched the political shows.
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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'
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I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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We don't want our players getting hurt.
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Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
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I still have a lot to do, a lot to improve.
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Everywhere, people are beginning to question masculine notions of control, aggression and black-and-white thinking - and instead are favoring more empathetic, nurturing and collaborative approaches.
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Otherwise, all I remember of the denizens of the Nocturama is that several of them had strikingly large eyes, and the fixed inquiring gaze found in certain painters and philosophers who seek to penetrate the darkness which surrounds us purely by means of looking and thinking.
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I think we really need a movement to drive how popular culture understands the issues that feminists care about. When I think about the LGBT movement for example, they have had a really intentional strategy to try to change images and representation of LGBT people in the media and the culture. It really moved the dial politically. That's what is needed in the women's movement - a strategy that can drive awareness and culture change.
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I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.
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'Sailor Moon' was my favorite cartoon of all time, and I'm still kind of obsessed with it. I own all the DVDs to watch it at home.
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But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
