G.A. Henty Quotes
The money might pay for food and shelter and clothes, but money cannot buy love, and that is what you gave, both of you; and it is for that that we now pay as well as we can.
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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The only foreplay I really need is for a guy to kiss my hip bone. The hip is the most erotic and neglected body part. Kiss the hip bone with your lips.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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What I'm concerned about is making sure that every single time somebody who grew up with us goes off to a different platform or a different device, we're going to be there with a Univision-branded product of some kind.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.
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I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding. But it's a good reason to put the price up, and it means a load of people will have haddock. They should tell people they're running out of all sorts. Make 'em panic a bit.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.
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I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school.
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Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say.
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There's a big difference between industrializing production of tractors and industrializing production of food. We like technology, but we really like technology that allows us to do better what nature does itself.
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A man who does not love praise is not a full man.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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The money might pay for food and shelter and clothes, but money cannot buy love, and that is what you gave, both of you; and it is for that that we now pay as well as we can.
