Winifred Holtby Quotes
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.
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I've always been a very prolific writer.
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I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.
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As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
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I'm a pretty decent cook. I like to grill. I have a smoker that I love. I love me some steak. And I'll make a huge salad with a ton of vegetables.
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Gentlemen of the Convention, your present temper may not mark the healthful pulse of our people. When your enthusiasm has passed, when the emotions of this hour have subsided, we shall find below the storm and passion that calm level of public opinion from which the thoughts of a mighty people are to be measured, and by which final action will be determined.
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The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.
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There is nothing attractive about the gospel to the natural man; the only man who finds the gospel attractive is the man who is convicted of sin.
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There's more money on the left in media than there is on the right.
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When we get government off the backs of our job creators, small businesses have a better chance of thriving. And when small businesses thrive, so does our economy.
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Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.
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the way with Ireland is that no sooner do you get away from her than the golden mists begin to close about her, and she lies, an Island of the Blest, something enchanted in our dreams. When you come back you may think you are disillusioned, but you know well that the fairy mists will begin to gather about her once more.
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Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.
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In the Kamigata area, they have a sort of tiered lunchbox they use for a single day when flower viewing. Upon returning, they throw them away, trampling them underfoot. The end is important in all things.
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They use those monitors now, and sometimes you'll be doing a shot and then suddenly you see yourself on one of those monitors, and I always say turn the monitor round, I don't want to see myself on the monitor. I never see myself 'til the movie's finished.
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Why haven't we seventy lives? One is no use.
