Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes
If the faith of all the mothers could blossom to its full fruition, there would be no unsuccessful men in the land.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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I think the writing skills of actors are sometimes underestimated.
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I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.
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Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.
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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
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Everyone wants to belong, and everyone needs to belong in order to make a career on some level.
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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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How commentators each dark passage shun,And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
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The reason that I call my doctrine logical atomism is because the atoms that I wish to arrive at as the sort of last residue in analysis are logical atoms and not physical atoms. Some of them will be what I call 'particulars' – such things as little patches of color or sounds, momentary things – and some of them will be predicates or relations and so on.
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’Twas on a sunny summer dayI trod a mighty city’s street,And when I started on my wayMy heart was full of fancies sweet;But soon, as nothing could be seen,But countenances sharp and keen,Nought heard or seen around but toldOf something bought or something sold,And none that seemed to think or careThat any save himself was there.
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I haven't made a movie for a while, but I've watched a lot. It's my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.
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As an artist, you need to be not at all entitled in your relation with the work. So money is kind of worrying. You can start to expect things if you're used to a certain level of comfort.
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I know what it takes to get to the top.
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I've got 'trust' tattooed on me, and I have a tattoo on my finger that's for my parents.
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I've never hosted a party in my life, not even my own birthday party. I'd feel really uncomfortable saying, 'Hey everybody, let's celebrate me!' But I'm not antisocial. I don't hate people.
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I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.
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I don't have the relationship that I thought I did with my fans. Maybe I did early on when I had a couple thousand fans, but it's not like us anymore. It's the idea of Notch and the 'Minecraft' community.
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Satan can do only what the sovereign God allows him to do.
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He was something like zero for twenty-one the first time I saw him. His first major league hit was a home run off me and I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie (Mays) forever if I'd only struck him out.
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I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move the musical theater form forward. I think you always have to be aware of the work that came before and build on that.
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This area will be a city someday. All of that land is either spoken for or is being entitled, so we were fortunate to get in early.
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It is true that writers often owe their most inspired thoughts, their most extraordinary phrases, to their generous typesetters, who assist their flights of fancy with so-called typographical errors.
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If the faith of all the mothers could blossom to its full fruition, there would be no unsuccessful men in the land.
