Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.
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I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
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A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
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Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.
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In the U.S., we didn't have scale, and without scale, it's difficult to operate.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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I have a few uniforms – depending on whether I'm going to a college campus or meeting a head of state. But clean and easy works best for me.
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That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.
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I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.
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You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire.
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The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been puzzling in 1892 or even in 1792.
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I just work a lot. I just remember recording in a hotel room in Malaysia. I work on planes, I work on buses. A lot of times when I'm backstage in the hotel or on the bus, I would have new ideas.
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Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
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When I came to Philadelphia in the late '80s, it was going through a very difficult time.
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You can never overlook a guy.
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The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever.
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Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.
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Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.
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Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of.
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Client companies and advertising agencies are old-world-order places. The systems and processes and structures come from a time when you shot the TV commercial, then you did the print ads, then you did everything else - including the website. Everything has changed, but the systems haven't.
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The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.
