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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Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.
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The role of the defense is to be an advocate for their client, regardless of whether he did it or not, within the bounds of the law.
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We were inspired by the fierce dignity of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, as she proved that no human being can truly be imprisoned if hope burns in your heart.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.
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She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: "Winter is dead.
