Enid Bagnold Quotes
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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I was on Kanye's Yeezus tour as a dancer, but really, I was a Vanessa Beecroft model. I was one of the three 'dancers' who couldn't dance and was more of an accessory than an individual. Vanessa was pretty involved. Her style is about a lot of standing. It's very simple but haunting.
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I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
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I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.
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There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
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I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.
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Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.
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It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out.
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Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
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My theory on politics is no one really knows how it works, so I choose not to comment on stuff too outside of my league.
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You don't become a poet if you want to make any money.
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Specifically, the U.S. holds strength. Its own context makes it a very competitive country, but I believe that if we recognize how interdependent the U.S. with its neighbors from the North and the South, we are part of NAFTA, a trade agreement.
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Judges don't age; time decorates them.
