Carolyn Keene (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) Quotes
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.
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The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
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As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
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When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.
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I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.
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With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.
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If Shanghai wants to be an international cultural center, they have to do something about that. The reason I left is that I wanted to explore what ballet is all about, and if I had stayed put, that wouldn't have happened.
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Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
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My features are completely ethnic.
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The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas.
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God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
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I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.
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I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.
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America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate.
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Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced.
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The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness.
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To read a piece of material from a period drama told from the woman's perspective is just so unique.
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It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies.
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I miss working with my friends and the fun we had. Working on the series was the best time I ever had on a set. I am disappointed that they cancelled the series when they did, because I felt that by the seventh season, we were really hitting our stride, and that episodes were getting better and better. Some people say that the show had run its course and that it was time to quit, but I disagree.
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George liked computers and was always sharing interesting facts with her friends.
