Carolyn Keene (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) Quotes
"I have a hunch from reading about old passageways that there may be one or more rooms off this tunnel," Nancy told Captain Rossland.
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Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.
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You couldn't be romantic if your life depended on it." "You know what's lucky? Most bad guys don't ask you to be romantic on command, so that probably won't matter.
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Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world and all of us against the infidel.
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Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.
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I wish I could find people who just would fight me and break through to me and hold me down and scream their life into my face.
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Actors spend a great deal of their time making films. And that doesn't mean that they're not educated. But we haven't gone to law school and we're not experts on policy. We're just people with a platform and an opinion. But that should never be enough, in my opinion, to be political.
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The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.
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We did nothing but breathe life into this team, that's all we did.
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I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together.
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The first time you hold your baby in your arms, I mean, a sense of strength and love washes over you. It washed over me and I never thought that possible.
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She was suddenly aware of him in a way she hadn't been before. Hayward was good-looking in a sweet and wholesome way.
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The one who is conscious (in Tao) can't speak. The one who can speak is not conscious (centered in Tao)
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My rejection at the Salon brought an end to my hesitation [to settle in Paris] since after this failure I can no longer claim to cope... alas, that fatal rejection has virtually taken the bread out of my mouth.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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We have to learn to face our fears and push ourselves. If you're living on earth and you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room. When you push past the fear and realize that what you feared was not a big deal, you gain more confidence.
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A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything’s going to be all right. you’ve made it past Dead Man’s Curve and you’re out of the tunnel, cruising straight for your destination down a six lane highway whether you want it or not.
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"I have a hunch from reading about old passageways that there may be one or more rooms off this tunnel," Nancy told Captain Rossland.
