E. V. Lucas Quotes
Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.
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I try to be this kind of player: the type who does something whenever he gets the ball. Sometimes in the past, I've gone through games where I've not touched the ball for 20 or 30 minutes.
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When you're on set, you have to perform and look the part.
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If the constitution goes, I go.
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I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large.
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If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used we stunt the growth of the soul. What God gives us is not necessarily "ours" but only ours to offer back to him, ours to relinguish, ours to lose, ours to let go of, if we want to be our true selves. Many deaths must go into reaching our maturity in Christ, many letting goes.
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I didn't have to listen to nobody or look how anybody wanted me to look. I just wanted to be myself and look however I want.
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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
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If I had to give one piece of advice to a budding entrepreneur, I would say: 'Aim big.'
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Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.
