Abraham Cowley Quotes
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The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited.
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
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Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a nightmare.
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Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?
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I don't need anyone to look after me financially and, while it's hard to trust that a man loves you for the right reasons, you have to take a leap of faith.
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Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.
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I think a culture can really be elevated through the arts, and it's always a dream come true when I come across roles that enable me to fuse my love of storytelling with my passion for activism and raising social awareness.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
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The mission that unites all of the programs of the Teach For All global network is that of cultivating the leadership capacity critical to ultimately ensuring educational opportunity for all.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
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I don't adjust my training for any of my opponents. I don't watch films on my opponents.
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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
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That's one of the things I resent the most violently. To have to take your own life and give it away to the public, in pieces.
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I'm a Gemini, so I change my mind every day.
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I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award ceremony an agent asked me if I was writing a novel. I showed her four or five chapters of what would become 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' and to my surprise she auctioned them off.
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In the end, I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper.
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I never take on anything that is just for the money or just for, you know. I always have to connect with it in a very personal way because I believe the audience will sense whether I'm into it or not, so I don't take on projects that I'm not really passionate about.
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Back in school, there was this guy who had a huge crush on me. One day, when he mustered the courage to propose to me on a Rose Day, my friends burst out laughing right in front of him. I'm sure we all have had such experiences, and I've had crushes in the past. Right now, all I can think about is my films and deliver my best.
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“Her half-closed eyes were moist and tremulous and languid with desire. I began to drink love from them with thirsty kisses; which revived her spirits a litle.”
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I have a small family, but they are all still in Perth, and I am still very close with my high-school friends.
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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
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We griev'd, we sigh'd, we wept; we never blush'd before.
