Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
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At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely loved by legions of readers. This apparent contradiction might be due to the fact that if they didn't screw up their lives, most losers would be the kind of power-elite, Type A go-getters whom readers love to hate.
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My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?
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My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.
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I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.
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If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.
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If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.
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The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets; you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.
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When I had my first boy it all started and that male energy seemed to keep me awake but since my daughter, who's incredibly serene, I can't seem to stop sleeping because she's asleep all the time. It's a pattern.
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In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
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It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical.
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One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.
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President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.
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I hate wasting people's time.
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We tried to approach this as though there's never been a Superman movie before, but at the same time respecting the canon and mythology. There are the pillars that you have to respect, and I'm not about to break them. But it is fun for me to bend them and mess with them.
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I used to play football at school, and I enjoyed really physical sports, but I now try to avoid any sports that might build up different muscles. That might have a negative impact on my archery.
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Digory never spoke on the way back, and the others were shy of speaking to him. He was very sad and he wasn't even sure all the time that he had done the right thing; but whenever he remembered the shining tears in Aslan's eyes he became sure.
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It may be providence's will that the cause I represent may prosper more by my suffering than by my remaining free.
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It is my conviction that in general women are more snobbish and class conscious than men and that these ignoble traits are a product of men's attitude toward women and women's passive acceptance of this attitude.
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Success, however you judge what that even means, brings with it certain pressures.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
