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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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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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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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.
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I worked my butt off in high school and received a lot of scholarships for college and to throw all that away for acting was tough for my family, but it was just something I felt my heart pulling me towards and don't regret a single minute of it. I love to act!
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I will not lose, for even in defeat/There's a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me
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I'm definitely a hair down girl. I'm a fan of the natural, earthy look.
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I wrote my first song when I was nine, and it was called 'Notice Me'. My Mom still has the piece of paper around somewhere, but I can't even imagine how terrible it is.
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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.
