Nellie McClung Quotes
Women had first to convince the world that they had souls and then that they had minds and then it came on to this matter of political entity and the end is not yet.
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
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As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you're young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months.
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I love the Middle East. My earliest childhood memories are of Jerusalem. I love the colors and smells and cadence of Arabic spoken in the streets of Cairo or Beirut. I also love the modernity and verve of Tel Aviv.
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Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?
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There's so many great designers. I'm a little bit of a vintage junkie when it comes to going out. I like to get unique pieces that you won't see everyone wearing, but at the same time I don't like to break the bank. I like to find great vintage pieces that you can hold on to for a long time.
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With thrillers, there's such a fine line between what's good and what's cheesy and corny.
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Care-Charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night,Brother to Death, in silent darkness born,Relieve my languish, and restore the light;With dark forgetting of my care return.And let the day be time enough to mournThe shipwreck of my ill adventured youth
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The public has an unusual relationship to the poet: It doesn't even know that he is there.
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She’s all for not letting the sun go down without having started something calculated to stagger humanity.
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The power of God is the worship He inspires.... The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable. The death of religion comes with the repression of the high hope of adventure.
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Настоящее произведение искусства делает то, что в сознании воспринимающего уничтожается разделение между ним и художником...
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All things are the same,-familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried.
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I don't call magazines and let them know about things so they can write stories.
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...there was practically one handwriting common to the whole school when it came to writing lines. It resembled the movements of a fly that had fallen into an ink-pot, and subsequently taken a little brisk exercise on a sheet of foolscap by way of restoring the circulation.
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Women had first to convince the world that they had souls and then that they had minds and then it came on to this matter of political entity and the end is not yet.
