Fannie Ellsworth Newberry Quotes
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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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 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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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones.
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In some ways, the best novel about terrorism, though it's not a novel, is 'The Looming Tower' by Lawrence Wright or 'Perfect Soldiers' by Terry McDermott.
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One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.
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To sleep after sunrise was impossible on account of the number of flies which kept buzzing about the face.
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The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.
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This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities they have, their greatest fear, I don't actually see their faces.
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Right from my childhood, I have believed in a Supreme Power. I don't know whether it has form, or it is formless. I am a high school dropout. How come life has given me so much? It's not my intelligence, it's not my abilities. This understanding makes me scared even in success. I don't own my success. Neither do I own my failure.
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All dread those things they don't understand.
