Storm Jameson (Margaret Storm Jameson) Quotes
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
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Bruce always had to tell a lie. He was always living that lie. Caitlyn doesn't have any secrets.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.
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Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
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A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.
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I grew up with three little brothers. Every Christmas, we'd have piles of toy trucks and Lincoln Logs and G.I. Joes under the tree. Those were for them. For me? My No. 1 favorite present of all time: books. Two or three tall stacks of wonderful stories that I could lose myself in for weeks.
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For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.
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I think about my dwindling anonymity, and that's really scary because a very large part of me would be perfectly happy living on a ranch in Colorado and having babies and chickens and horses – which I will do anyway.
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Barbour is a brand that I have grown up with and been associated with since I was living near the borders of Scotland.
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I am quite a private person.
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And I think within the pages of The Betrayal of America I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.
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As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don't want to be spoken down to. I want to be treated as a peer and to be made to feel welcome.
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In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
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I turn left for a living.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty.
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But to this day - I'm very literate now, I love to read, I read constantly - words don't resonate the way they do to a person with a formal education. They're like a maze, a puzzle that has to be opened up.
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The East would always present that calm face of faint astonishment, unmoved at the anger, not understanding the bitterness.
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When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
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She hasn't been back since, and we have a young per diem substitute who had taught shoes in a vocational high school on her last job. Though her license is English, she had been called to the Shoe Department, where she traced the history of shoes from Cinderella and Puss in Boots through Galsworthy and modern advertising. "Best shoe lesson they ever had," she told me cheerfully. "Until a cop came in, dangling handcuffs: 'Lady, that kid I gotta have.'" To her, Calvin Coolidge is Paradise.
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My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.
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Unfortunately, people are re-interpreting the Constitution as a living document, and it's not. It's a solid-based document and it shouldn't be played with.
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Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.
