A. A. Milne Quotes
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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I received free health care.
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It's never been difficult for me to say no. I have never given excuses like I don't have dates. I have never over-quoted to avoid a project. I simply say that while the script might be good, I can't connect with it. My strategy is that while I wouldn't want anyone to waste my time, I shouldn't be doing that, either, with others.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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I don't wear plaid shirts.
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America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.
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I'm incredibly humbled that the leader of the modern liberty movement and strong conservative leader Congressman Ron Paul is backing our campaign.
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You need to train your brain to be positive.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.
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I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
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Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
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While one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.
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I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.
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Money is either a good or bad influence, according to the character of the person who possesses it.
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I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.
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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
