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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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 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 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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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
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I used to go to the library all the time when I was kid. As a teenager, I got a book on how to write jokes at the library, and that, in turn, launched my comedy career.
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When Robert Benton was doing the movie 'In the Still of the Night,' I'd choreographed the auction scene and supplied the paintings and had a bit part - I was bidding against Meryl Streep.
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Sunday night I always cook if I can - if I'm home, I always cook.
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The night the day of our find, Dr. Pitt and the stone tablet disappeared!
