Carolyn Keene (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) Quotes
Slowly she surveyed her surroundings and took in the tiny gold lights glinting in every store window and the twin glass elevators decked in red and green bows. A banner hung from the second floor balcony, declaring ONLY SEVEN MORE SHOPPING DAYS TILL XMAS!
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Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.
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NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
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It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game - play by play.
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I am a Zionist.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.
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Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'
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In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.
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I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
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British girls are really funny, so I definitely think we'd get along.
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I don't have a process; I just feel it. My book on acting would be very short.
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I think for people that are dealing with this out there, the important thing to know is that this is real. It's called CIU, and there are solutions out there for you.
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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
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When I run - you can see my record - I run to win.
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To me, family is what is important. If you don't have it, nothing is going to matter.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
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I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
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I love my band - they are the best out there, and I wouldn't want to perform with anyone else.
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I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
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There are screens at the gas station, there are screens at the shopping mall. And they all need content.
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I always want to try new things, and 'Mean Machine' has given me that chance. I have got plans to carry on acting and would love to play all sorts of roles - you'll see that there's more strings to my bow!
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Slowly she surveyed her surroundings and took in the tiny gold lights glinting in every store window and the twin glass elevators decked in red and green bows. A banner hung from the second floor balcony, declaring ONLY SEVEN MORE SHOPPING DAYS TILL XMAS!
