Carolyn Keene (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) Quotes
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
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It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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I remember the days of sitting at book signings, playing with my pen when no one would come, and still I even then thought I was living the dream, because I had a book out.
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I was going to finish my university degree after finishing 'The Tailors,' but 'Pinocchio' made me to take another semester off.
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Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing 'Annie Get Your Gun.'
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I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.
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Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
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I guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.
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Once Clinton won, I started picking on him.
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Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
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While I know that Twitter is doing just fine with or without my 140-character contributions, I also know that people are fickle, and when using something becomes too annoying, they stop.
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I still don't get golf.
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I've always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.
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In Egypt, a civil state means a modern nationalist state that is compatible with Islamist provisions.
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Right now the tabloids are saying I'm pregnant, and they're naming the baby. It's hilarious. I don't know when I'll want to get married. I never pictured myself as a bride, but after my sister's wedding,I did start thinking about what kind of wedding I'd want. I don't think I want a big one.
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When I was younger, I went through a phase when I didn't like my hair. Because the school I went to was primarily Caucasian, there wasn't anyone who had my hair texture. I remember one day I straightened my hair, and that was the first day that people gave me compliments on it.
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My hair's been every color. My hair's been all over the map.
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Brushing her hair until it snapped with electricity
