A. A. Milne Quotes
She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: "Winter is dead.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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I received free health care.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at some incredible places and we couldn't enjoy it, hadn't the time.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
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Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.
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I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.
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I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
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The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.
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If you compare it to 'Batman' and 'Superman,' the world of 'Green Lantern' is way bigger and potentially way more interesting in a lot of ways, I think.
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Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.
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When I'm wearing too-high heels and swaying my hips, I do that Sharon Stone kind of thing - she has the sexiest walk, a New York cool thing that throws you back.
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When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills.
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We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.
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She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: "Winter is dead.
