Carolyn Keene (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) Quotes
“And to think,” Ned said huskily, “only this afternoon I thought I’d lost you to another guy.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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The way I pack is I look at how long I'll be gone and I pack day for day. If I'm going on a three-day fishing trip, I plot each day. I put most of that in a little bag. If I'm going from there to work on golf courses for a few days, I plot that trip.
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Some growths can be detected early, making for increased accuracy in diagnosis. Some can be cured and others controlled.
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I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.
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Prior to 2001, hardly any company in North America or Europe would buy from India.
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I think when you're a TV presenter, you have to have a reason for doing it, and a lot of them have been around a long time and grafted for that. The reason why it works with me on 'The Xtra Factor' is because I was a contestant on it, and I have a relationship with the viewers at home.
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As a producer, the most important call you can get is on Saturday morning, when the Friday-night grosses come in. As a director, you want your film to be successful. But your outlook is a bit different. You become very conscious of the reviews.
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He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
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It's nice to know there are some things in early 21st-century post-industrial culture that don't change very fast. I am one of those.
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Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it.
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Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.
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Go where your customers take you! For example, did you know that Sony's first product was a rice cooker? Since abandoning the rice cooker, it has merely managed to become the world's biggest consumer electronics company.
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I cannot tell a joke. But I can do a situation, that it becomes a joke.
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But now, I get up every morning and go to the gym because I don't like waking up stiff or in pain and wondering if my hip is going to hurt me.
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I knew Dana White as a good guy, a good square guy.
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One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider.
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We're not eliminated till we're eliminated. I just feel good about not being eliminated. We get to live another day.
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“And to think,” Ned said huskily, “only this afternoon I thought I’d lost you to another guy.
