James Lane Allen Quotes
You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Quotes to Explore
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I was so proud when I was commissioned into the Army.
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I was 47 when I got pregnant. I'd been trying for a couple of years and thought it would never happen.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
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Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Women are such incredible people. We're so multifaceted, we're so interesting, and any opportunity to celebrate that - because there's been many years of not being able to - and expose what it's like to be female and how we can be whoever we want to be, and do whatever we want to do, is great.
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Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman.
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Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.
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The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.
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You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
