Carolyn Keene (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) Quotes
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I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.
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I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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I didn't know what to expect, having not been an artist before. From the outside, you only see romantic snapshots of what seems like a great lifestyle, and it is, but it's also grueling.
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My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.
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Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.
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We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
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I don't go to the doctor except when I'm very ill, and when I go to India, I drink a drop of local water.
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What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.
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Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
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Private equity funds a substantial amount of new businesses and is the source of capital to rejuvenate failing businesses, which are major drivers of job growth in this economy.
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But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war.
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I don't wanna be a rock star. I don't believe in rock stars. If you really examine what goes with being a rock star, I've avoided that really well.
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I'm a fun-loving guy. We are basically from Amritsar and ours is a chilled-out family. I think I have got my humour from my mother.
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I try not to eat anything which is too fat, and I can't eat anything which is too sweet.
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I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it's one of the most satisfying parts of writing.
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'Letters From Home' is a story inspired by my grandparents' epistolary courtship.
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My mother is still battling alcoholism.
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I guess they say, "Necessity is the mother of invention" because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it.
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Being around lots of people drains me, and alone time is essential to my well-being.
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I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.
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The officer said No and his mother was frantic.
