Carolyn Keene (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) Quotes
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Good argument is intended to persuade another.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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Live shows are pretty much like the center of the storm... where the power comes from, the most raw experience. That's the juice. That's where we hit the hardest.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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On a lot of shows that I've done, we had the same directors, which was cool. But then, it's also great to do shows where the director changes every week, because you get to see all these different personalities and see what you like dealing with better, as an actor.
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Knowledge is the life of the mind.
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Queen Victoria was loyal and true to the Pope; that is what I was told, and so is Edward the Seventh loyal and true, but he has got something contrary in his body.
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I always feel like it's two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that's step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.
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I'm sure when they partied when Rome was burning, that was a really great party.
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I love Chanel.
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Even the devil gives some justice to his victims, when they're beyond all help.
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Such fools they were in Battle School, to let so few girls in. It left the boys completely helpless against a woman when they returned to Earth.
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One is forced to remember how far from 'self-expression' great poems are - what a strange compromise between the demands of the self, the world, and Poetry they actually represent.
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If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into the larger society, then I will not only drop my defenses and my hostility, but I will sing your praises and help you to make the desert bear fruit.
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Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to deteriorate.
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If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my goal.
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I want to preach till the last breath in my lungs runs out.
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It is awfully hard work doing nothing.
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Nothing is worse than a beautiful girl fishing for compliments by saying how gross she is. On the flip side, I find genuine humility and modesty attractive.
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My mom was in a punk rock band called The Trash Women, and they toured and all of that. She had me when she was 17.
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In my 40s, the two cultures finally came to peace with one other inside me, and I have come to identify myself as both 100% Chinese and 100% American simultaneously.
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There was a perfection to the moment that made Sienna think: Yes, this is it. This is who we're meant to be together.
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She always has close calls when she solves a mystery!
