Sarah Fielding Quotes
Their virtues lived in their children. The family changed its persons but not its manners, and they continued a blessing to the world from generation to generation.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.
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A boxing workout is the heaviest thing, but it's the best. The worst part is that boxing gyms are the smelliest things in the universe. You have to lie down on the floor, where everyone has been sweating and spitting, and do 1,000 situps and push-ups.
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What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.
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Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.
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I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.
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I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.
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I like those stories that capture the brutality of life, but there's still some kind of melancholy romance.
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I wanted James Carville to never die. I wanted Dylan, the poet, to not die. I wanted to put these people in a place where they would be inviolate. It wasn't enough to have a still life of them. I wanted to surround them with the lives they led.
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Die before you Die. There is no chance after.
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No Jewish blood runs among my blood,but I am as bitterly and hardly hatedby every anti-semiteas if I were a Jew. By thisI am a Russian.
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The people considered the most in need of protection were women and children. The sex considered most disposable was men – or males....
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It had been suggested to her that the flaw lay not in the universe but in herself.
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Bdelycleon: It is so that you may know only those who nourish you (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'Tis all barren!
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It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed.
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My favourite animals are dogs.
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When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms.
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I'm addicted to the dynamics of relationships whether they be in love, work, between strangers on the streets, or in the world in general.
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Their virtues lived in their children. The family changed its persons but not its manners, and they continued a blessing to the world from generation to generation.
