E. Nesbit Quotes
It is not, Dear, because I am alone, For I am lonelier when the rest are near, But that my place against your heart has grown Too dear to dream of when you are not here.
Quotes to Explore
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
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My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
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A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.
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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
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I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life. I try to keep that as much in balance with work as I can.
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I have always believed that resistance against repression and violence is possible without relying on similar repression and violence. I have always believed that human civilization is the fruit of the effort of both women and men.
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War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.
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High among the costs of immigration is the appearance among us of diseases that never before afflicted us and the sudden reappearance of contagious diseases that researchers and doctors had eradicated long ago. Malaria, polio, hepatitis, tuberculosis and such rarities of the Third World as dengue fever, Chagas' Disease and leprosy are surfacing here...
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It's not hard to get into a teen's head, because it's all emotions. Their feelings are amplified; you have no luxury of hindsight. If you haven't had your heart broken before, you don't know that you'll be able to get back up again.
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So one of the profound things we found when studying these congregations, the mixed ones, is just how much overlap and interracial ties that develop not only with the people in the congregation, but they start meeting each other's families, and their friends, and they go to each other's neighborhoods if they live in different neighborhoods, and at work they meet people they wouldn't otherwise met, and so it creates a whole new definition of what the group is.
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It is not, Dear, because I am alone, For I am lonelier when the rest are near, But that my place against your heart has grown Too dear to dream of when you are not here.
