Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Obviously it makes a difference if an author has a public online profile of some sort, even just down to the level of having a moderately popular blog. Most books sell 5, 10, or 15 thousand copies. Most are midlist books. With those people, even a modest online presence can make a difference in sales.
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I think beauty can be everywhere.
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I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.
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You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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Stars arrive on their own timetable.
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But, I swear, they're turning Donna into Annie Hall this season. More ties. More suits. But they're also keeping her really motivated, ya know? Like, wanting to be a rock journalist. Wanting to be the first woman president.
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In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.
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Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.
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I would like 'I Dream of Genie' powers.
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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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If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.
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In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is 'My god is greater than your god,' and we're fighting in the name of our god, we have to find a way to peaceably coexist, spiritually.
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An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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'Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own family photo albums.
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You hear these yummy mummies talk about being the best possible mother, and they put all their effort into their children. I also want to be the best possible mother, but I know that my job as a mother includes bringing my children up so, actually, they can live without me.
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Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its strength. It is the weakness of words not to know this.
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I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.
