Anna Leonowens Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not saving lives.
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Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
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I love the romance of 'let's get married,' but then, when you have it so perfect... I mean, I'm more married than anybody can be - we have two kids. Maybe one day, but it's something I can really do without.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
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No damn man kills me and lives.
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I'm here to say all lives matter.
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I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.
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In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.
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So many people have that relationship. The companionship. The connection. To our - to other beings, our pets. I hate to call them pets. But you know, to other creatures that we share our lives with.
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There was a golden retriever who saved countless lives on September 11 by going back in to find people. His companion was in a wheelchair. He got him out and kept going back in to save others.
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Our actions make the fragrance of our lives...Would you smell of plums? Or Vinegar?
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Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
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If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.
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To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake.
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That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.
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Someone said to me that we have to encourage more young women to want top-level editing jobs. I think that will happen naturally as we have more role models, more examples of boss ladies who aren't sad and cruel and overworked and undersexed like in DevilWearsPrada, but who are straight-up owning it and notable not for their gender but for their editorial savvy.
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In how many lives there lurks a hidden romance or a hidden terror.
