Carol Ann Tomlinson Quotes
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Quotes to Explore
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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I definitely think that myself and Sam will help the Timberwolves.
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I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.
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I have a strong affinity for animals.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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People don't teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it's something I'd never had to handle, because I'd been rejected for so long.
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The project of Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' is exactly that: to assert the beautiful, bountiful, chaotic complexity of one black American male. And, by extension, all black American males.
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Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.
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I have always dealt with economic forces, rather than philosophic forces, but you can't split history into neat little non-overlapping divisions. For instance, religions tend to accumulate wealth when successful and that eventually tends to distort the economic development of a society.
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What's Buffy got? A wooden stake, some garlic. Xena has a full arsenal of weapons.
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As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love is born anew.
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If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
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I'm trying to build something where people will go every day.
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The sci-fi fans in America... they are die-hard. They will follow you to the ends of the Earth. Once they attach themselves to a show and believe in the show and love the characters, they're there forever, and they're unshakeable.
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I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.
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I'm not used to saying no to this man on any level.
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If I were to agree to write the music for your beautiful poem, it would tie your poem up for some years as I have agreements and obligations which I must respect.
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L.A. was never me. Nashville is my home.
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I think we have to acknowledge that people are different and succeed at different things, first of all. Men are better than women at some professions like firefighting, construction work, and physics. But women are better than men at some professions, too, like elementary teaching, prostitution, and giving birth. Who's to say which is more important?
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Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs.
