Frances Burney Quotes
it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.
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Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
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The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.
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At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.
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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
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When a crowd rushes into your house without declaring its intention, it is, by definition, an invasion.
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I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.
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My solos are more tastefully conceived now. But I still get going in places. It's just that I build up to it now. I don't race off on a solo. I take my time.
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My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.
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When anything is wrong with your child, your first instinct is to make it better.
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You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.
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But not all scars showed, did they?
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it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.
