Adah Isaacs Menken 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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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
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I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
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My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.
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I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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You have to follow that next step.
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In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
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My legs are really long and that's cool apparently, but I'm totally klutzy. I mean, I'm like Bambi. I fall all over myself because I can't control my arms and my really long legs.
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I can't speak on behalf of the show. I'm not a creator; I'm just a pawn.
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My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.
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September 11 either made me love this country or it made me realize how much I already did. I think it's the latter. Seeing "Fahrenheit 9/11" made me think deeply about love of country - how it molds us, drives and emboldens us and how it can sometimes make us so angry, we want to shout out to the world: 'No, this is wrong.'
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that have got a bit more about them.
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To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.
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I'm not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition.
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Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.
