Ada Leverson Quotes
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.
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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'
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Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.
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It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.
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I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.
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We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.
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With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.
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I thank God that I'm a product of my parents. That they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I'm grateful that I know where I come from.
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I think that there's a sense that procedurals, because they have more of a formula to the storytelling, it doesn't necessarily rate as high as some of the high-concept, big-idea, big-swing things that get the critics really excited.
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Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.
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There is a kind of universality in the human condition, masculine or feminine. That's one thing I continue to believe.
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
