A. A. Milne Quotes
When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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The retirement timing is always a tricky thing for a dancer. I think it's different for everyone. How you say goodbye to the thing you have really focused on that much is a tough one. I've always intended to leave in good shape, to exit on a high note.
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Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.
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Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
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I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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I don't think I'm a bigot or a racist. But I have a truck, a Blazer. I drink beer. There are some women I do hate.
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Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
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For me, writing is really an agony. I feel as if I have a huge, luminous idea that has the potential to be really profound, and then when I set it down on paper, I find the power of the idea has been hugely weakened in the process of transmission.
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If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.
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In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.
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When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
