Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes
Abbie would stop in her work and utter a prayer for him,—and, sent as it were from the bow of a mother's watchful care, bound by the cord of a mother's love, the little winged arrow on its flight must have reached Some one,—Somewhere.
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I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.
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You have to make enough noise to be cast in the right films, and the best way to make that noise is to do lots of good work.
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I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.
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The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.
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I go to bed when the kids go to bed because I get up when they get up at 5.
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What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.
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We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences.
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The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.
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Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.
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Most people are visually illiterate. Most people don't understand images: they don't understand how to interpret them or how to manufacture them.
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Now there is something about Tuukka you probably don’t know and that is he loves chicken wings more than any person I’ve ever met in my life. If he could eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner he would.
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Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.
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The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
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I think it's healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care.
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I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.
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Abbie would stop in her work and utter a prayer for him,—and, sent as it were from the bow of a mother's watchful care, bound by the cord of a mother's love, the little winged arrow on its flight must have reached Some one,—Somewhere.
