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.
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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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Too much negotiating and not enough work on the court – that's what happened to me during the lockout. Too much talking and not enough training. I couldn't put in my usual offseason work routine. I think that all caught up to me, with my Achilles problems.
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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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I would love to rent a little cottage or cabin in Colorado and learn to ski or snowboard. And on the warmer side, I also want to rent a house in Hawaii and learn to surf!
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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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Prince is my favorite ever. I've liked Prince since... It's been a really long time. Even in junior high. I used to only like punk for a while, and I had all these rules for what kinds of groups were cool, and who was not cool, but as soon as I saw this one Prince video... It just broke all those rules. I was like, 'I love this no matter what.'
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Privacy is a right, but as in any democratic society, it is not an absolute right.
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I know there are people, if I go into a market or a city for the first time, there are people that are there that just want to see the famous person, or the guy from 'Dumb and Dumber' or whatever movie they liked. And that's fine, it gets them in the door, but then it's my job to give them something different.
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I love entertaining people, being a showman. I loved the atmosphere on the terraces when I set off on a dribble.
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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.
