Caitlin Moran Quotes
I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.
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I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.
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The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers and I grew up with considerable freedom, whether it was saving or spending our tips from the restaurant or our career choices.
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The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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My parents wouldn't have sent me out into the world with wool over my eyes. You have to be aware, or you'll be swallowed.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
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I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard;It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word.
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I want a man who isn't questioning who he is. I want a man to be able to stand next to me and not disappear and not be emasculated by my success.
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Montaigne puts not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.
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'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.
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At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after the obligatory, I write only for myself, I realize that I have an imaginary circle of peers - writers and respected or savvy theatre folk, some dramatic writers and some not, some living, some long gone. . . . Often a writer is aware as he works that a certain critic is going to hate this one. . . . You don't let what a critic might say worry you or alter your work; it might even add a spark to the gleeful process of creation.
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I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.
