James Lane Allen Quotes
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The worst I think that I ever was, when 'Unforgettable' had come out, and not long after that I was on - I was on my way to my second divorce. And that was a crushing, crushing blow.
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A lot of people come work with me because I keep an open set, and people can visit. Julia Roberts used to have friends visit on 'Pretty Woman.'
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I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.
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'Gaucho' was a struggle for us for a lot of reasons, and in the end, we just sort of survived it.
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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People generally let me be me. People are aware that I'm not someone particularly begging for attention. They hold back a bit with me.
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It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
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If I am expected to play a dancer, I will learn dancing but won't do the random, meaningless dancing.
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I'm not a big jazz fan.
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If the light is right, you can squint at the Taj and see the specter of its black twin on the other side of the Yamuna - and it is then that you truly marvel not just at the Taj, but at the wonder of what might have been.
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It Nobel Peace Prize is a great recognition and honour for millions of children in the world. I hope many more people will join the fight against child slavery. This isn't just about India. It's a global phenomenon. We'll work for this globally. I've been working in 147 countries and my responsibility is with all the world's children.
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His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.
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The man recovered of the bite,The dog it was that died.
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'Plan A is to hitch a ride out of here. But if they want a war, then plan B is to win it.'
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We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
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Jacksonville back in the 1960s was kind of a redneck town. There were only two or three places where you could play our kind of hard rock - or 'hippie music' as it was called back then. You had to go to Georgia or some place else.
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Sometimes letting someone go is the ultimate act of love.
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Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all.
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You young maidens, too long constrained by a fanciful Virtue's absurd and dangerous bonds and by those of a disgusting religion, imitate the fiery Eugénie; be as quick as she to destroy, to spurn all those ridiculous precepts inculcated in you by imbecile parents.
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For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.
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The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love.
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Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.
