Thomas Nelson Page Quotes
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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It's hard to sell a brand without having a face to it.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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The first pitch I played on, for my first club, Braine-le-Comte, was only a metre from our house! I progressed very quickly.
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I personally approve all the shoes that go into production, and I have a level of involvement with the factories that other people don't have.
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My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.
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One of the more challenging things in life is not being the guy who does the cheating, but not saying anything about it and going along with it.
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The main fight of Frelimo is against human exploitation.
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You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.
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Such fools they were in Battle School, to let so few girls in. It left the boys completely helpless against a woman when they returned to Earth.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business.
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I'm someone who thinks that the world would be a better place if there was a big middle class. I mean, middle class is peace. In a perfect world, everybody would have enough to eat and we'd be living in security. It's obvious. I'm very happy to pay my taxes and all that. I would say I'm more of a Social Democrat.
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Old maids do not mind giving people trouble.
