Nicola Morgan Quotes
The lives and deaths of characters in stories and poems, however tragic, help us to learn about the world and - if we are brave enough - to change it.
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.
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If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.
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Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?
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I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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Germany can make a major difference in the lives of so many Holocaust survivors who are struggling in their later years.
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I have never, ever talked about my orientation or sexuality because whether I am heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual, it is my concern. I refuse to talk about it... I have not been brought up to talk about my sex life.
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I left home at 15 because Hollywood isn't the best place to grow up.
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One of my favorite films is 1994's 'Little Women', with Winona Ryder and Kirsten Dunst.
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It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
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Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
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You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much.
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What is the short meaning of the long speech?
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Years from now, people will find our acceptance of the HIV theory of AIDS as silly as we find those who excommunicated Galileo.
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I made the big turnaround in the early Nineties when I started hearing all the tenth generation punk bands like Green Day and Offspring and all those people. It just made me fall in love with punk again and remember my roots, and since that time I've always wanted to do more of that kind of music again.
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The lives and deaths of characters in stories and poems, however tragic, help us to learn about the world and - if we are brave enough - to change it.
