Winifred Holtby Quotes
The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.
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I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.
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I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.
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I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
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I'm a fixer, unfortunately. I'm like, 'Oh, I can fix you.' But it's not just guys I'm dating anymore. It's this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.
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During his runs for the GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has done a good job of mimicking Reagan's anti-government diatribes and 'better days ahead' rhetoric.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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You can't build another bridge that's so close to ours. It's stupid.
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Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.
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In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to be strong and make my own choices and do what's best in my life, so if you're dating someone who doesn't want you to be the best person you can be, you shouldn't be dating them.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.
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I lost a company. So what? It's just stuff. Can't take it with you.
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We gotta be proud to be Latino. It's almost like we cheating because we're American and we live by American customs, but at the same time, we got that Latino culture. We cheating; we double dipping.
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Good people strengthen themselves ceaselessly.
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It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
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I always wanted to do a 'Ms. Smith Goes to Washington.'
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
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The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.
