Alphonse Daudet Quotes
Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
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All my books are optimistic!
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Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.
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I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
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So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.
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He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.
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Study after study has demonstrated that people are better off financially, healthier, happier if they are married, and indeed, I repeat, if they are formally married as opposed to simply living together.
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When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
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I've been left at the altar now a couple of times.
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If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?
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Auditioning is one of the most nerve-racking things you could ever do, but you have to be so focused that you don't tic.
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Most of our physical education teachers were just teachers, and they had to do the extra stuff on their own. I remember very vividly that they would hold a cane pole between two of the students down low, and we would all jump over it. And they would raise it and raise it and raise it.
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There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.
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I refresh Twitter as thoughtlessly as some twirl their hair.
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I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources.
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When I was a kid, I was a pretty good runner, and there was nothing like winning a race.
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Living in New York, I get excited by the idea of working in a different medium. And it's pretty frightening because whatever skills it takes to make a good piece of theater seem mysterious to me right now.
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I grew up in west London, but my dad wouldn't let me go to school there, so I went in south London.
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Writing is a solitary occupation; we don't really have any colleagues.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them.
