Bette Lord Quotes
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me.
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I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn't do it. I became one of those horrible foster parents who give the kids back.
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I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.
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Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.
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Quentin Tarantino is a genius. I want to do every single film with him.
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When you're onstage with Chris Rock, anything can happen. He is one of the greatest comic geniuses we've ever seen.
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There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things.
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None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction - they're always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.
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He looked death in the eye and did not seem disappointed.
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'I have come to kill you.'The death’s heads shrugged. 'You have come to try.'
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Anya: How 'bout you, ever play Shiver Me Timbers?Tara: I'm not really much for the timber.
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If you love a man, immediately you will reduce your intake of food - it's automatic.
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If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
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People usually think that it is the coach who has to raise the spirits of his players; that it is the coach who has to convince his footballers; that it is his job to take the lead all the time. But that's not always the case.
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As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
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I'd worked at the White House for two years, and I'd read a bunch of White House memoirs because everybody who works at the White House, even for five minutes, writes a memoir usually not less than 600 pages long - and never without the word 'power' in the title.
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When the oldest batch of millennials really first began voting around the mid-2000s, they leaned a little toward the Democrats, looking a lot like the Gen Xers also did at that time.
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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
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This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: - To speak of bloody power as right divine, And call on God to guard each vile chief's house, And for such chiefs, turn men to wolves and swine.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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No tablecloths, silver cutlery, fine porcelain, sommeliers, or deep wine lists - that's fine. But no service or hospitality? That's going too far.
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Believe me, blond hair can take you really far, especially with the older men. It can really distract from the face. I am convinced I could have had sex with both Tony Bennett and John McCain if we weren't each happily married at the time we all met.
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Principles have a way of yielding to power.
