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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Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
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In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.
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There's been times when I've had heartbreaking moments and I'm like, 'I can't believe you said that,' or 'I can't believe you did that'. And it hurts, it still hurts, and it'll always hurt, but I've never had somebody that I truly cared about just walk out on me, whether it was a boyfriend, or an aunt, mom or dad.
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It was scary having that sort of power over a girl. You could hurt her in ways you might never understand.
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The ANC party from time to time comes with legislation which, if accepted and if not nullified by the constitution of court, would have the effect of undermining the constitution and eroding its values.
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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."
