Carolyn Keene (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) Quotes
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
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The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.
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I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.
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I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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That's everybody's goal, when they come to the league, is to win a Super Bowl. That's the ultimate goal.
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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
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You try to do what you can to bring harmony wherever you go.
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Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid.
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Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.
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I think the physical comedy in action sequences is fantastic. Like, '21 Jump Street' did a great job with that.
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I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of spare on the prairie. And so I'm just used to writing in that way. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' was that way. And most of my fiction is. I like writing small pieces. Somehow it just suits me.
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I swear a lot; I always have. So does my husband. Our son, surprisingly, does not swear much at all.
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Roll rocks down a ten-thousand-foot mountain, and they cannot be stopped - this is because of the mountain, not the rocks. Get people to fight with the courage to win every time, and the strong and the weak unite - this is because of the momentum, not the individuals.
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I really have shaken hands with where my voice is right now. I think it's got a little deeper; it's got some more grooves in it.
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The night the day of our find, Dr. Pitt and the stone tablet disappeared!
