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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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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I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
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We are so isolated in our own little worlds, in our own little geographies, that it's pretty hard to understand where someone else is coming from. And so I think that we have to really think about what that means as a country and, frankly, whether this segregation that we have is durable over the long run.
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As kids, we grow up thinking our parents are perfect and flawless - well, some of us - but they're trying to do the best they can.
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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.
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I stay away from the writing part because I think that if it sticks, it sticks. You just know it. The stuff that doesn't stick, goes away. The stuff that propels you forward, you can see it in your partner's eyes.
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I've only been to New Zealand once, about 1989. It was incredibly beautiful, kind of like the ideal of where I live in New England - all that and then some - but I can't say I was there long enough to get any very clear idea.
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But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
