Sarah Fielding Quotes
The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions themselves; and much rather would we choose that our reader should clearly understand what our principal actors think than what they do.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.
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Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
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Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.
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The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
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If the part isn't always there on the page, I've had good relationships with writers where there's an openness to bring more to the role.
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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
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One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet.
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I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not.
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My real name is Joe Kennedy, but if you live in Massachusetts, you can't sign 'Joe Kennedy.' So, back in 1957, I stuck the X on my name to be different from those people in Hyannis Port.
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These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.
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Strew gladness on the paths of men-You will not pass this way again.
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The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for.
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If religion and churches are truly threats to our liberties, how did those liberties survive, and in such healthy condition, all those years of classroom prayer and Bible-reading?
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The last decade has seen a steady increase in the application of concepts from the theory of games to the study of evolution. Fields as diverse as sex ratio theory, animal distribution, contest behaviour and reciprocal altruism have contributed to what is now emerging as a universal way of thinking about phenotypic evolution.
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I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.
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The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions themselves; and much rather would we choose that our reader should clearly understand what our principal actors think than what they do.
