Brenda Ueland Quotes
It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
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I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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The long term sustainable growth in job creation comes from the private sector. It is important that the Obama administration partner with the private sector and come up with the best possible ideas for creating jobs.
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What I've learned is sometimes it's good not to have all the same actions and have all the same takes. The variety you provide gives the director later on in post-production the ability to construct a more interesting performance as he puts the movie together.
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I would really like to play someone contemporary, as I've done lots of period pieces. I would love to play an American bimbo or a grimy Londoner. But I'm probably more suited in people's minds to playing a corseted victim.
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My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.
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I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.'
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I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.
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I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.
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A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.
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I try to cook dinner, but it's difficult when I'm working.
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We don't work with anyone.
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It is true that I have been studying both humility and pride for many years for the purpose of weakening pride in my own life and cultivating humility by the grace of God.
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People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.
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I think there's too much saturated color in comics, thanks to digital color techniques.
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Left to face a hungry winter robbed of their hard-earned harvests, the people experienced their own warrior class not as protectors but ravagers.
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Completing any writing project, particularly a novel, is a daunting prospect. Many people become frozen by the prospect. Others keep waiting for the right time. Some wait for the spark of inspiration. Even experienced writers find it is easier to do anything other than actually write.
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And I think we need a combination of a freeze, potentially, and also we need to sit down with the - with the banking industry and talk to them about ways in which we can help them be able to work those mortgages out, because it's absolutely imperative that we keep people in their homes.
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During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.
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I am a great believer rather than the popular scientific way of dealing with things that 'Nothing exists unless you can prove it'. I am pretty much the other way that pretty much anything can exist unless you can disprove it.
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It's not merely that conservatives are better at selling their product, or that they happen to have an easier-and undoubtedly simpler-ideological product to sell. It's that they know what they are selling. Liberals in general and Obama in particular cannot say the same.
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Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.
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Adult stem cells tend not to form tumors.
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It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
