Carolyn Keene (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) Quotes
The two women watched Judy intently as they introduced themselves as Edna and Mary Turner, great-aunts of the little girl.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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Though the S8, like all premium Samsung phones, runs Android with the basic Google suite of apps, Samsung keeps trying to duplicate Android functions with its own software. It wants to be a software platform like its rival Apple, but it uses someone else's operating system and core apps. Awkward.
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
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Definitely, I think I fulfill a very funny Indian stereotype because I love technology. It's something I've always been interested in.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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I remember in 'Pride and Prejudice' I had to do a scene where I broke down. And before we filmed I spent like three hours imagining my mum's funeral. Actually, she's very much alive, happy and healthy. It was really horrible.
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Basically my whole life revolves around soccer. I don't take many vacations. Everything just gets put on the back burner because of my training. I miss out on a lot of weddings and family functions. But at the end of the day, I'm sitting here as a world champion, and it feels pretty good.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Angels are like diamonds. They can't be made, you have to find them. Each one is unique.
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If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.
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If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.
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When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
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It's funny because the perception is that the typical 'X Factor' contestant is the person who's just working 9 to 5 and just decides to one day go and audition. So yeah, for me, it was a very different story.
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A free and rooted society ought to consist of a web of moral obligations. We have the right to ignore them, but we ought to be actually obliged not to let other people starve or to let them lapse into destitution.
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It's pretty exciting. An honorary doctorate of the arts. It doesn't get any better.
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My music speaks of warriors. It speaks of women being kings and this sense of pride of being more, even though you have less.
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When I am an old woman, I will stop trying to look beautiful. I will quit wearing makeup and buying uncomfortable clothes because they look good. Maybe I will take up nudism.
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My mom used to cut out articles from the 'Atlanta Journal Constitution' when I was in high school. She would either give them to me to read or she would post them on the fridge. These articles would usually be stories of someone inventing something, breaking records, or achieving some kind of success.
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People have to go through things in order to become the person they are today, and that's that.
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I'm probably the least cerebral guy you're ever going to meet as a writer.
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The two women watched Judy intently as they introduced themselves as Edna and Mary Turner, great-aunts of the little girl.
