Tracy Chevalier Quotes
I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home
Tracy Chevalier
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
Vance McAllister
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You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.
Olympia Dukakis
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First and foremost, you have to remember that restaurants are businesses and they have to stay in business. And though everyone thinks they want grass fed beef, most people actually prefer the taste of corn fed - it is less dry, more marbled, and less gamey, not to mention much less expensive than grass fed.
Gail Simmons
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A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
Jack Ma
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
Paloma Faith
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. Henry
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I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to really think things through.
Mae Jemison
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The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.
Abbas Kiarostami
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That, thought Mrs. Fisher, her eyes going steadily line by line down the page and not a word of it getting through into her consciousness, is foolish of friends. It is condemning one to a premature death. One should continue (of course with dignity) to develop, however old one may be. She had nothing against developing, against further ripeness, because as long as one was alive one was not dead—obviously, decided Mrs. Fisher, and development, change, ripening, were life. What she would dislike would be unripening, going back to something green. She would dislike it intensely; and this is what she felt she was on the brink of doing. Naturally it made her very uneasy, and only in constant movement could she find distraction. Increasingly restless and no longer able to confine herself to her battlements, she wandered more and more frequently, and also aimlessly, in and out of the top garden.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
Captain Beefheart
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I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home
Tracy Chevalier
