A. A. Milne Quotes

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

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• I don't believe in the 100 crore club.

  

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• You just write what you know, and I know what it's like to be a teenager in 1993,, and I'm a woman, so I'm definitely going to write from that point of view.

  

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• I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.

  

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• It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.

  

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• Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

  

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• One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

  

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• My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.

  

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• It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.

  

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• If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.

  

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• I don't like writing with real people in mind.

  

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• I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.

  

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• You know, if it weren't for these fans, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did.

  

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• People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

  

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• Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

  

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• Connected with the fall of Satan is his lameness. The devil is represented in art and in legion as limping on one foot; this was occasioned by his having broken his leg in his fall.

  

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• As with Google, Facebook was a place that just concentrated a lot of top talent. It's just sort of natural that those people would go on and continue to be successful.

  

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• All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.

  

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• 'Kung Fu' was never cancelled; I just left. I decided I had enough of it, and I thought I should do a movie right away, because I think when you leave a television series, it's important that you establish the fact that you're a movie actor really quickly, or you might never get that chance.

  

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• 'The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.'

  

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• If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

  

  A. A. Milne
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  • Effort
  • Name