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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My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.
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I'm more interested in people the way they are than what they've done onscreen before. So I don't worry much about the acting skills or the name, the status. I just think, 'Do I believe this person? Do I like them? Are they interesting, complicated, have the right aura, energy?'
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When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its sensuous qualities.
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Status doesn't matter; fame doesn't matter. You have to be really, really grounded in who you are and feel good as a person inside.
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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
