Samuel Foote Quotes

So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.

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• I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
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• I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!

  

  Harlan Coben
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• 'The Big Chill' had a bunch of really talented actors, a great soundtrack, and the college connections that the characters shared. It's one of those movies I glean something different from every time I watch it.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
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• Every idea has its time.

  

  Vicente Fox
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• The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
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• Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
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• I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.

  

  Ira Glass
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• Teachers need time to engage with colleagues - whether shadowing, mentoring, co-teaching or conferring. They need a voice in school decisions and to be trusted as professionals.

  

  Randi Weingarten
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• Everywhere in my house are these little things that have meanings and make me think of great memories.

  

  Nate Berkus
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• But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.

  

  Ira Glass
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• I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.

  

  Bailey Chase
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• You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.

  

  Wayne Shorter
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• When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
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• The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself.

  

  Ina Garten
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• I'm a London girl, so I grew up on Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood... Dior, Chanel, the usual suspects.

  

  Natalie Dormer
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• I'm just trying to really take it one day at a time, because for me - and I know this sounds cliche, whatever - I achieved my ultimate goal, and nothing can really top that, you know?

  

  Nastia Liukin
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• Women are choosing to stay single rather than marry men who can't step up and provide.

  

  Hanna Rosin
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• I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

  

  John Irving
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• You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
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• I tend to be really competitive when it comes to Scattergories.

  

  Mandy Moore
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• Faith is not the absence of doubt; it is continuing to follow Jesus in the midst of doubt.

  

  J. D. Greear
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• So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.

  

  Samuel Foote
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