Carolyn Keene (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) Quotes
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I have a lot of friends who are infected with HIV, and you wanna protect them... To increase the awareness of it and to find a cure for it, the human lives we would save would be a really awesome thing. You just have to involve yourself as much as you can.
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I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .
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School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.
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Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times.
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Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.
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If I was Simon Cowell for a day, I’d buy a bouncy castle, and jump on it. Then…pour ketchup on myself!
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I do think there is some chance we will see increased private sector savings in the next year or two if housing prices were to moderate.
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I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness.
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I've chosen to be a commentator and an analyzer of politics, rather than an actual doer of it. I think it could have gone the other way, but I'm not sorry that it didn't, because this made it easier to be home with my kids and to spend time with them. Writing you can do right in your house. You don't have to go anywhere.
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When taxes are too high, people go hungry.
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My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.
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When you find your reason for living, hold onto it. Never let it go. Even if it means burning other bridges along the way.
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I think what holds people up in creative processes is the expectation of what it is they're doing. It's also the sense of judgement, you know, people editing themselves.
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With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised.
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I think that what I do is a form of pathetic fallacy, the literary trope in which nature is in sympathy with the mood of the story. I connect the physical setting and props in the story to the emotional state of the characters.
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...behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.
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I promise to be as careful as a pussycat walking up a slippery roof
