James Lane Allen Quotes
The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.
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Nobody wants to give up good players.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
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The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
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The taste of any simple tomato-based salad is dependent on the quality of the tomatoes.
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Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'
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A woman's health is her capital.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
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You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.
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I've always thought that having an attractive free agent is better than a guy who was picked in the seventh round.
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Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?
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I just want to make films that have enough of a budget to pull off high-level imagery but also have a budget that is low enough that I can do what I want.
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The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.
