Olive Schreiner Quotes
A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.
Olive Schreiner
Quotes to Explore
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Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.
Eddie Bracken
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
K. A. Applegate
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The natural sweetness of leeks, with their soft, oniony aroma, makes them the perfect winter comfort food.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.
Sam Claflin
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I was in Kenya when I read 'Catch-22,' and I associate this book that has nothing to do with Kenya - whenever I think of 'Catch-22,' I think of Nairobi.
D. B. Weiss
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Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.
D'Angelo
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I wrote a play once called 'Lobby Hero,' which I thought turned out very well, but there's no final version of it. I published the one we produced, but there are seven other versions with different variations sitting in my desk at home.
Kenneth Lonergan
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A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.
Patti LaBelle
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Most people, early in November, take last looks at their gardens, are are then prepared to ignore them until the spring. I am quite sure that a garden doesn't like to be ignored like this. It doesn't like to be covered in dust sheets, as though it were an old room which you had shut up during the winter. Especially since a garden knows how gay and delightful it can be, even in the very frozen heart of the winter, if you only give it a chance.
Beverley Nichols
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I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.
Chris Rock
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Measles may not spread as fast as erroneous sound bites and tweets, but they both have the potential to cause a great amount of damage.
Bill Foster
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A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.
Olive Schreiner
