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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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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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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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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My cousin once told me, 'You're tall, you're handsome - and you're gonna have to apologize for it the rest of your life.' He imparted that information to me.
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The parts I've got to create are a little bit different to a lot of guys my age.
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I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.
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I’m sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn’t do, and I’ve hurt myself by hurting you.
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It's not that your back hurts, .. You get these horrible, ice cream brain-freeze headaches. So I would go in on the weekends and get these things called blood patches, where they'd shoot blood into your spine. It was like running a marathon to get it done.
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
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I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
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Lies from the closest to you are often the most numerous and paralyzing.
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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."
