Attia Hosain Quotes
She had a nose that looked like an afterthought, not moulded into her face, but stuck on much as a child would model a face; and she was so thin it seemed her zeal for conversion had consumed her flesh.
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The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large.
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I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away.
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I'm one of those actresses that really enjoys staying home with my children. To be told you've got to get to work, it is just unbelievable what it does to you.
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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
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My friends I grew up with were so supportive to me. And I'm not the only one who's done well.
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Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
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I hate to lose. It's a bad feeling, but, I mean, it kind of gets you resettled, gets you back right.
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It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.
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I'm re-teaming with the producers of 'Twilight,' whom I love and who I have an amazing relationship with.
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It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.
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I'm definitely a hair down girl. I'm a fan of the natural, earthy look.
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I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
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I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself, and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore.
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I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.
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My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.
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If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.
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I wasn't a social butterfly at all.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Fighting Manny Pacquiao in the future - there's possibilities it could happen. But whatever happens in the future happens in the future.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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I was 7 years old, and I challenged everything. I never accepted answers on face value.
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I think the art fair is very much a form of urbanism. I think something really happens to the cities when such a fair happens. The city becomes an exhibition; it's amazing.
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She had a nose that looked like an afterthought, not moulded into her face, but stuck on much as a child would model a face; and she was so thin it seemed her zeal for conversion had consumed her flesh.
