Charles Webster Hawthorne Quotes
Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors.
Quotes to Explore
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
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'Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old – obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.
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To play something which is a big spectrum is so much more fun, so much more of a challenge.
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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I arrive in New York on October 15, 1975. On my own, by the way.
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As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will.
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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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I wanted to write for all children, even those kids who might see language as a threatening thing, even if English is their second language.
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Choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way.
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In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off.
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Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors.
