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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English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family, each district, must preserve as far as possible its independence, its self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to manage its own affairs and think its own thoughts.
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As an actor, whether I'm playing Othello on stage or David Estes on 'Homeland,' that ability to give into your imagination is something that I enjoy.
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After World War II, a lot of people moved to the cities for work and abandoned the old vineyards. Then in the 1950s and 1960s, wineries were paid to produce volume at a cheap price. That's when the Lambruscos and bad Chianti were popular.
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I try not to invent; I try simply to translate the weird language of the natural world. And I'm not into absolute ownership of things.
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I like how I write better than how I speak.
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It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.
