Melissa de la Cruz Quotes
I lived for those moments when we were together, those few times in my life that I actually felt alive.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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I've been lucky to ride 10 different horses at the Olympics. I'd like to think that of all of them, Big Ben - who was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame - would still be competitive in the contemporary sport.
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It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
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My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen.
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I've got a publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt who's been working little miracles for me, but it's true the budgets aren't what they once were in terms of advertisement and book tours.
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We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.
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Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.
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What's the worst that could happen? You're going to come second or lose? It's not like someone has got a gun to your head.
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I've always loved musical films; I find them really thrilling and exciting; it was part of what made me want to be an actress, that feeling of being really transported.
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I can't say this enough, I'm totally comfortable with my body. I like my body, I don't think it's a bad thing, I think I have a nice body, I'm happy with it.
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Religion, virtually without fail, provides the army at war with its blessings, and recruits from among its officials the chaplain, who in military costume counsels and consoles and stiffens the morale of men at war.
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Ev was a careful man, a model of caution. He took pride in not committing to a view until all the facts were in. Which meant, of course, that he was never quite on board. Or in opposition.
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I told about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. 'It's that way with people, too,' he said, 'only with people it's sometimes that the whole is less than the sum of the parts.'
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Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay;And if in death still lovely, lovelier there;Far lovelier! pity swells the tide of love.
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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
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I think I've been very lucky all my life because the writing and the faith seem to go together.
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Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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You may work under incredible pressure over two hours in a day, but you're often around that studio 14 to 16 hours of that day.
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I lived for those moments when we were together, those few times in my life that I actually felt alive.
