Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
Mr. Wilder says he would rather have me help than any man he ever sawed with. And, believe me, I learned how to take care of hens and to make them lay.
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on 'Hawaii Five-0' originated on the wrong side of the law, I'd say he's worked his way over to the good side.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.
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I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.
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If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.
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He was a great president in his first term; in his second term, he wasn't the same Grover Cleveland he was to begin with. ...Cleveland reestablished the presidency by being not only a chief executive but a leader.
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You don't protect Mark McGwire. The only way to protect him is hit 70 homers yourself.
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I eat fish and love bacon. Plus, I don't mind if soups are made with chicken or beef stock, I just don't like eating big pieces of meat.
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America has always had an apocalyptic strain. Yet it also seems to believe that if, or when, The End comes, it will still come out on top.
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I think pre-nups are brilliant. I get very well taken care of.
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Mr. Wilder says he would rather have me help than any man he ever sawed with. And, believe me, I learned how to take care of hens and to make them lay.
