Anna Cora Mowatt Quotes
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.
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While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.
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I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.
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Every patient is a consumer, and every consumer is a potential patient. What NantWorks is doing is building the world the way Da Vinci saw it, and augmenting every frame a human being sees as they work, live and play.
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Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before 'Mad Men.'
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I envision a day when a businesswoman will be having lunch, and then her phone will ring. When she opens it up, she will see an image of the latest Marc Jacobs coat that just arrived in stock. With a click of a button, she can purchase it and then find it waiting for her when she gets back to her office.
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I'm always weeping at something or other.
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I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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I always find something interesting on Twitter that leads me somewhere else.
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I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.
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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.
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It is all very well to sit back and hope for 'the best in this best of all possible worlds' but it's the course of personal and national suicide. Unless there is a vast alteration in man's civilization as it stumbles along today, man will not be here very long and none of us. Times must change.
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It's all right buying all these good players but they've got to gel, and that takes time.
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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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In an age of never-ending health fads, it's comforting to learn that one of the healthiest activities you can do has existed for millennia. It's called reading. Yes, books are not just entertaining or educational: they can also improve your mental health.
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If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.
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Women have to work much harder to make it in this world. It really pisses me off that women don't get the same opportunities as men do, or money for that matter. Because lets face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define our values and to define what's sexy and what's feminine and that's bullshit. At the end of the day, it's not about equal rights, it's about how we think. We have to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves.
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Women endowed with remarkable sensibilities enjoy much; but they also suffer much.
