Alice Borchardt Quotes
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There were many years when I was hand-to-mouth and didn't know how I was gonna make rent. I've done every job under the sun, from busing tables, temping, and working in factories to SAT prep and detailing cars. So to be able to make a living where all I do is write is absolutely liberating.
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My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.
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Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.
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I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.
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The hand of God creates; it does not conceal.
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You must live fully in the now to make your dreams come true.
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Great things happen nationally when topmost leadership is goaded and supported from below.
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Time is the soul of this world.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Each ray of light moves in the coordinate system 'at rest' with the definite, constant velocity V independent of whether this ray of light is emitted by a body at rest or a body in motion.
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... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always present, and needs only to be uncovered. This is our real nature, not merely to love one person here, another there, but to be love itself.
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Love goes toward love.
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A dream itself is but a shadow.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.
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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.
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Useful as a war against France, undertaken by the Government against the will of the people would be for our revolutionary development, just so dangerous must be the effect upon our democratic development of a war supported by blind popular enthusiasm.
