Jean Ingelow Quotes
The red Sahara in an angry glow, / With amber fogs, across its hollows trailed / Long strings of camels, gloomy-eyed and slow ...
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
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If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
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I was always the smallest role in community theater and school plays. I always had two lines - I was the kid that came on stage and said one thing and then left, and that was my part for the play.
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I said three things when I woke up in Walter Reed. 'I love you.' 'Put me to work,' and 'You stink! Go shower!'
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Philistine – a word which I understand properly to denote indifference to the higher intellectual interests. The word may also be defined, however, as the name applied by prigs to the rest of their species.
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The Moment is freedom. - I couldn't live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.
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There is always a gap between what candidates say in the heat of the campaign, when they are not constrained by the realities of governance, and how they act after being sworn into office.
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In the entertainment industry, careers don't last very long - and online, careers last an even shorter amount of time.
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I got a couple of front teeth knocked out during a football match when I was hit by a flying elbow.
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I used to know Madison Avenue advertisers. I didn't like 'em. Bunch of jerks.
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Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.
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Marathons are good training goals.
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Similarly, today, we do not know what will happen as we wage the War on Terror. We do know that we can count on the strong support from our closest ally and friend in the world in winning this war to secure our freedoms and the freedoms for all peoples throughout the world.
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I never really had the fun teens of exploring the world because I was sitting at home, learning programming.
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Well, because we're so different as people. And it's that difference that probably also makes it easy to stay together, because we don't get in each others way.
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I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.
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There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers.
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There are things in Russia which are not as they seem.
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I had three choices: to conform to my own beliefs, which meant death; complete silence, which meant another kind of death; to pay a tribute, a bribe. I chose the third solution by writing The Long Winter.
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People are all the same. We need a personal reason to get our asses off the couch.
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King Henry: But what a point, my lord, your falcon made, And what a pitch she flew above the rest! To see how God in all his creatures works! Yea, man and birds are fain of climbing high. Suffolk: No marvel, an it like your majesty, My lord protectors hawks do tower so well; They know their masters loves to be aloft, And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch. Gloucester: My lord, 'tis but a base ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.
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The red Sahara in an angry glow, / With amber fogs, across its hollows trailed / Long strings of camels, gloomy-eyed and slow ...
