Carolyn Keene (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) Quotes
NANCY DREW, an attractive girl of eighteen, was driving home along a country road in her new, dark-blue convertible. She had just delivered some legal papers for her father.
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I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.
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So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
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Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
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The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
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I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
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We should have an inclusive growth model in India. Agro-interest is also as important as industrial interest.
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
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For me, it was important Wonder Woman wouldn't be a Goody Two-Shoes. She has a little bit of attitude, and when she fights, she has a smirk on her face. I didn't want her to be polished. I want people to relate to her.
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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.
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You come to me and it's my job to make you look the best you can look. From an image point of view, would I prefer to dress Jude Law instead of Rolf Harris? Of course. But it's my job to make them both look great.
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If you're doing television, you get to be a character for a long time, and the cast around you becomes like family. You get attached to playing that one character, and it's hard leaving them behind.
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I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've tried to really stress that.
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When I hear of anyone walking into a lab and walking out with animals, my heart sings.
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A place of freedom is the best place to have the most creativity.
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I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week.
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We have found that the most successful teachers in low-income communities operate like successful leaders. They establish a vision of where their students will be performing at the end of the year that many believe to be unrealistic.
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Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.
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Who I am at the core and what I think represents me is really reflected in my family.
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NANCY DREW, an attractive girl of eighteen, was driving home along a country road in her new, dark-blue convertible. She had just delivered some legal papers for her father.
