Fannie Ellsworth Newberry Quotes
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.
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I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.
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Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
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One thing it takes to accomplish something is courage.
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No good act performed in the world ever dies. Science tells us that no atom of matter can ever be destroyed, that no force once started ever ends; it merely passes through a multiplicity of ever-changing phases. Every good deed done to others is a great force that starts an unending pulsation through time and eternity. We may not know it, we may never hear a word of gratitude or recognition, but it will all come back to us in some form as naturally, as perfectly, as inevitably, . . . as echo answers to sound.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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I refresh Twitter as thoughtlessly as some twirl their hair.
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Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.
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All dread those things they don't understand.
