Carolyn Keene (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) Quotes

One thing is for sure, she thought. Work is the best antidote for worry. I'll get back to Twin Elms and do some more sleuthing there.

Carolyn Keene

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• To Do
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• Twin Elms

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• In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Work
  • Process
  • Old

• There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Country

• Some things is made by destiny, yes, other things by hard work, but quality you don't learn. Quality you are born with.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Destiny

• I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Work
  • Control
  • Singing

• It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Hair

• The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Work
  • Canvas
  • Add

• Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Stop
  • Voice

• When I wrote 'Noughts and Crosses', I was halfway through it when I realised this was very like 'Romeo and Juliet'... as long as you make it your own, and put your own spin on it, I think it's brilliant to use other great work to find your own voice.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Work
  • Great
  • Long

• It's midnight Cinderella time that you should know,There's gonna be some changes in the way this story goes.It's midnight Cinderella but don't you worry none,'Cause I'm Peter Peter the Pumpkin EaterAnd the party's just begun.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Party
  • Worry

• There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Respect
  • Value
  • Worry

• I am highly critical of myself. I am never satisfied with my work.

  

  Anushka Shetty
  • Work

• I've got 50,000 Facebook fans inside of Iran, and Facebook is banned in Iran. I think the people who follow 'Humans of New York' the most after New York City is Tehran. I have a really special affection for the Persian people because they've really taken to my work.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • People
  • Work
  • City

• Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.

  

  Eric Davis
  • Life
  • Worry

• To go to the Oscars for Moneyball - that was pretty amazing. And to be able to go work with Kathryn Bigelow - that's going to be pretty sweet. Hopefully I don't have to go back to being a waiter. That's still my main goal.

  

  Chris Pratt
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Amazing

• One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now.

  

  Chris Isaak
  • Worry

• I went to acting school, and there were twenty other actors in my class who were exceptional. It's hard for anybody to get work. When I was trying to get jobs, I felt a responsibility to be respectful of the opportunities and take challenging things that could be interesting both for me as an actor and for the audience.

  

  Billy Crudup
  • Work
  • Trying
  • School

• We have a two-party system that I think can work well if people make an effort.

  

  Pete Gallego
  • People
  • Work
  • Party

• I spent years only ever reading horror and then trying to write horror - and deep down, a horror writer is still what I'd love to be. But it wasn't until I started writing crime that things began to work for me.

  

  Paul Cleave
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Trying

• We’ve got to find a way to make the world work for everyone. Climate change is an issue that impacts that greatly by making it harder for people to live where they live, by causing disruptions, and lack of resources.

  

  Ronald Klain
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• My first real awareness of Chechnya came when I was a college student studying in Russia. I arrived in St. Petersburg about two months after Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated for her reports on Chechnya. I lived with an elderly woman and her grown children in an apartment that was not too far from the neighborhood military cadet school.

  

  Anthony Marra
  • Real
  • Children
  • School

• I'm 5 foot 7, and I've got pasty white skin. I don't think I'm ugly, don't get me wrong, but I'm not your classic lead man, Brad Pitt guy.

  

  James McAvoy
  • Guy
  • Ugly

• Front-line officials, including DEA agents, border patrol and other homeland-security professionals, should remind Mr. Trump how important Mexico's assistance is in achieving his national-security goals.

  

  James G. Stavridis
  • Important
  • Goals
  • Trump

• One thing is for sure, she thought. Work is the best antidote for worry. I'll get back to Twin Elms and do some more sleuthing there.

  

  Carolyn Keene
  • Work
  • Worry
  • To Do