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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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 feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.
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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.
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Beauty is no handicap if you don't think about it.
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box.
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The night the day of our find, Dr. Pitt and the stone tablet disappeared!
