Anne Reeve Aldrich Quotes
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
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Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
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A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.
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In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.
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I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.
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Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
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The advice I would give to girls from Eastern backgrounds who are interested in the arts is that it is always beneficial to get your academic studies out of the way before going into the competitive world of the arts.
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A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.
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Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
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Decathletes have to train for every event: sprints one day, field events the next. You pump up to make yourself strong enough to throw? Try pole vaulting at 250 pounds. There are 32 guys in most decathlons, and they're in 32 little track meets.
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Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.
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Tell Père Tanguy to send me some paints. What I need most are ten tubes of white, two of chrome yellow, one bright red, one brown lac, one ultramarine, five Veronese green, one cobalt j I have on hand only one tube of white ... I expect to begin to paint again from nature, and I need the colors.
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I grew up babysitting and always enjoyed it. I love family. A couple of my closest friends have kids, and I'm their godfather, and that's one of my greatest pleasures in life, just picking them up from school and hanging out with them.
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Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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All's well with thee if thou art in just hands.
