Francis Marion Crawford Quotes
In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere born free, any more than they are everywhere in chains, unless these be of their own individual making.
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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Following the creation concept that creation processes differed from preservation processes, it is suggested that God endowed each created kind, at the time of its creation, with potential for vast variety.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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I clean my face twice a day with cold water and don't go to sleep with make-up on.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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I'm more of a tough girl, and I'm attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That means sandalwood, musk, amber, and vanilla notes.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
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I guess I'm used to TV where we don't really rehearse. You block it out, and then you just start shooting.
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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Yes, a general principle that comes out of research behind Good to Eat is that there are no world religions that have acted to decrease the potential for the nutritional well-being of their followers.
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Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?
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Once you finish a book, it doesn't belong to you anymore. You're giving it to other people. If something in what a writer writes can excite the imagination and the feelings of the reader, then that reader carries it around forever. Nothing is more vivid than good fiction.
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In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere born free, any more than they are everywhere in chains, unless these be of their own individual making.
