Hannah Whitall Smith Quotes
If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it!
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
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Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.
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One should know their body types well to experiment with trends.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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I'm so bored of all these girls who have written about 20 books by the time they're 25.
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But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.
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It's cool that I'm 20 and am on the cover of the video game. A lot of kids play hockey, and a few get drafted, and only a few get to be on the cover. It's a great feeling.
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I've always just wanted people to look at me.
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I'm not interested in how well someone can sing. It's what you're singing that interests me.
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The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
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If there was anyone primed to raise their kids feminist, it was me. My parents treated me no differently from my brother. I was raised to believe I was capable of doing anything I set my mind to.
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In general, when I watch cable news during the day, it's frustrating because it reminds me of a game show. If I want to watch 'The Price is Right,' I'll watch 'The Price is Right.'
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The greats are 'The Shining', 'Rosemary's Baby', 'Don't Look Now', 'The Exorcist' - those movies were not really slashers: they were about psychological terror and had very deep emotional backdrops. If we do our best, '6 Miranda Drive' can be that kind of a movie.
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Psycho-analysis has taught us that a boy's earliest choice of objects for his love is incestuous and that those objects are forbidden ones – his mother and his sister. We have learnt, too, the manner in which, as he grows up, he liberates himself from this incestuous attraction. A neurotic, on the other hand, invariably exhibits some degree of psychical infantilism. He has either failed to get free from the psychosexual conditions that prevailed in his childhood or he has returned to them – two possibilities which may be summed up as developmental inhibition and regression.
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So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.
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I take things a little too seriously sometimes.
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When a song comes to you, you can't run around it.
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If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it!
