Frances E. Willard Quotes
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The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
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Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I've never graced the cover of a fashion magazine.
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As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.
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If Kate Moss hadn't been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.
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We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.
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You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.
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I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life.
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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.
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I'm not a person who thinks the world would be entirely different if it was run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten what high school was like.
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As feminism made this transition from equal opportunity to unequal opportunism, I made my transition from supporter to critic. But in my inner psyche, there was no transition: I went from supporter of equality to supporter of equality.
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We have, as a result of two thousand years of Christianity, sex on the brain. Which isn't always the best place for it.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Unilateralism, as we have painfully seen in Iraq, is its own reward. Going it alone may satisfy a political instinct but it is dangerous to our military, even without their Commander in Chief taunting terrorists to 'bring it on.'
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I never remember my parents having an argument.
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There are a lot of problems in this country having to do with permissiveness.
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I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.
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Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
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We've got to know the Word of God. That is our absolute stability. That is our offensive weapon against the kingdom of darkness.
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Only what coronation is in an earthly way, baptism is in a heavenly way; God's authoritative declaration in material form of a spiritual reality.
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Nobody in my family ever thought that I'd a be a model.
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If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.
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God is action - let us be like God.
