Carolyn Keene (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) Quotes
What’s that old saying about the longest way ‘round is the shortest way home, or is it the shortest way ’round is the longest way home? Anyway, this is the longest shortcut I’ve ever taken.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.
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I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
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I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
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Lunch is for wimps.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.
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I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.
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I love to sing more than anything - more than acting, even.
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I love love. I'm, like, obsessed with it.
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I think I'm making music that's pretty universal.
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From as early as I can remember, I was focused on becoming a lawyer.
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The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places around the country.
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I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.
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The people who harvest America's food must be treated with respect and earn a living wage.
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We worship Him not because He is the best of our gods, but because He is, or was, the greatest killer among them.
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Time and again-from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring-events have caught the experts, whether in government or on the outside, completely by surprise. Business owners with comparable performance records go bust. Brokers lose their clients. Physicians get sued for malpractice. Yet think-tankers and policy wonks continue to opine, never pausing to reflect on-or apologize for-their spotty records.
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He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.
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What’s that old saying about the longest way ‘round is the shortest way home, or is it the shortest way ’round is the longest way home? Anyway, this is the longest shortcut I’ve ever taken.
