Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
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The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.
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There are charms made only for distant admiration.
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I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
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Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go and do all the stuff that I love - 'Trojan horse' it. There are so many great YA heroines, and that's fantastic, but what about the emotionally complex boy out there? That's who I tend to write about.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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My parents were Beatle fans, but my mom was especially a Lennon fan, so I was exposed to him more. I remember her playing 'Double Fantasy' quite often.
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Right knows no boundaries and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.
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All the diamonds in this worldThat mean anything to meAre conjured upby wind and sunlight sparkling on the seaI ran aground in a harbor townLost the taste for being freeThank God he sent some gull chased shipTo carry me to sea...
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If you crossed Matthew Henry's path, you would quickly realize that here was someone taking thankful notice of all God was doing for him, and doing so in an attractively joyful way that was infectious.
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If my own struggles have taught me anything, it is that my greatest need is to know God better, and I am not alone.
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The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.
