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Such moods do not last unless the possessor of them is prepared to wither away, and Eve was not about to let herself wither.

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• I've always enjoyed the teen angst thing. I had a lot of teen angst as I was growing up, so I think I have a lot to say about it through characters before I have to move on.

  

  Magda Apanowicz
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• He's got a great burst. He can be running, and he doesn't even put his hands up until the last second because he's got such confidence. Even though he's a shorter receiver, he's very much a downfield threat because of that.

  

  Joe Gibbs
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• The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good. All I have to do is execute the material enough where they buy into it. I've had the great luxury of the audiences accepting that.

  

  John Travolta
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• Is this your bedroom?" she asked, and turned to look at him. Myrnin straightened and jammed the big red floppy hat back on his head. The feathers waved back and forth. "Don't get any ideas," he said. "I'm far too young and innocent for that kind of thinking.

  

  Rachel Caine
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• Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• The power of yes: that's what allows creativity to breathe and to come in. That's what allows your ideas to become living, breathing, moving dreams in action.

  

  Jason Mraz
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• My thought with harmonies and melodies in general, is that if it doesn't come right away then it's never going to come at all.

  

  Zach Condon
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• An argument would have begun to steam and boil and sputter - and you know how arguments end. Even if I had convinced him that he was wrong, his pride would have made it difficult for him to back down and give in.

  

  Dale Carnegie
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• I got my first break and became a singing waiter at eighteen or nineteen. I couldn't make a living at it. I quit. Then I got married and sold aluminum siding. My wife had problems physically. It was not good.

  

  Jack Roy
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• The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• We try to make films for people [that are] the films that we'd like to see. They're not easy to get made. They're hard to get made. You have to keep the budget low to get them made. But at the end of the day, I don't really worry about competition, because I don't really think of it that way. I don't feel like I'm in a race with anybody.

  

  George Clooney
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• I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
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• The question is simply,'Who is your master?'Once that's settled, you ask whether any word have been spoken. If it has, you have your orders.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
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• I think people pick up on that. You use personal stuff and mix it all in - I definitely pull on that stuff in my acting.

  

  Molly Shannon
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• One of the things I've realized in my decades on this planet is that the world goes on no matter what, and if we are to survive with any amount of grace we all need little oases of tranquility and sanity in our lives. For me, an evening of wine in good company is just such a place.

  

  Dave Chambers
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• Writers would hate me saying this, and I love words, but I have to say that cinema exists, on one level, for the power of the big image and what that image does.

  

  Miranda Otto
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• People still don't get how astounding Darwinism is. People think what shocked everybody was that Charles Darwin seemed to be saying we had descended from apes.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • People
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• Such moods do not last unless the possessor of them is prepared to wither away, and Eve was not about to let herself wither.

  

  Belva Plain
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