Carolyn Keene (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) Quotes
"Do you think he’s going to hurt Sam?” Bess asked. “I don’t know. But it sounds like that’s on the table."
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No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.
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The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
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Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.
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You have a lot of great teams in the NBA. I watched San Antonio against Dallas, and they're two great teams, and there are great teams in the east, as well. So it takes time to gel, as we've all seen.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.
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Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don't have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.
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I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.
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The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.
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Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.
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'Twin Peaks' was incredibly slow, methodic, taking shots that were uncomfortably long, with a lot of scenes where there was barely any dialogue. 'Riverdale' has a much faster pace.
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I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.
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Ladies, I'll let you in on a lil secret: guys don't notice your nails.
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I'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people.
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"Do you think he’s going to hurt Sam?” Bess asked. “I don’t know. But it sounds like that’s on the table."
