Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
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When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.
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I am not a 'doom and gloom' guy.
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We don't have to sit by while Trump uses his enormous global platform to undermine our national security. We would love to be able to actually force Twitter's hand to live up to its rules, explicitly forbidding hate speech and encouraging violence.
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The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
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In terms of work, obviously acting is such a job that is very in the flesh kind of thing. It's your work, but it's your life, in a way. You can get so mixed up.
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Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.
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In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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As to the most prudent logicians might venture to deduce from a skein of wool the probable existence of a sheep; so you, from the raw stuff of perception, may venture to deduce a universe which transcends the reproductive powers of your loom.
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If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.
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I think that making a movie is not just making the movie - it is also about having thoughtful ideas and embracing all the aspects of its launch.
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One of the most troubling things about the term 'fake news' is that it has become a force field against accusations you don't like.
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I don't distinguish the music I listen to from great music - it's just music. There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is good for us.
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Engineering stimulates the mind.
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Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.
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You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.
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Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside.
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As I pushed through to the podium, I could hear people murmuring under their breath: 'There he is... Goddam Biden.... Kill the sonofabitch.' And these were my voters- working-class Democrats.
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My eyes are so bleary I guess I'm young but I feel so weary I've tried to express it But I think its all a bore Its at the heart of me, A very part of me
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Things last so much longer than people.
