Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes
It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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I'm wondering how many elected figures any of us could find who do not, in the front or back of their minds, remember who does them favors, who doesn't.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.
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My acting coach makes the impossible accessible.
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If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
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Football is my true love. I played with boys until I was 11 and then for a girls' club in Middlesbrough until I was 16.
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For obstacle racing, you wanna be as light, lean, and fast as possible. So, if I lift a lot of weights, I'm gonna be a little bit heavier, which will make it harder for me to hold myself up.
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'What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?'
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The greatest of mythologies divided its gods into creators, preservers and destroyers. Tidiness obviously belongs to the second category, which mitigates the terrific impact of the other two.
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It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper.
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To a woman who claimed she'd rather be dead than unconfined and unfashionable. My dear, if you continue to lace as tightly as you do now, you will not long have the privilege of choice. You will be both dead and out of fashion.
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It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.
