D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where for the first time in my life I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. This was where I discovered 'Encyclopedia Brown' and 'Nancy Drew,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Rebecca.' This was where I became inspired to be a writer.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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Writers are so important.
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I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.
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I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set his heart. If the passion for reading conquers him, his gains dwindle and vanish between his fingers. A reader, on the other hand, must check the desire for learning at the outset; if knowledge sticks to him well and good, but to go in pursuit of it, to read on a system, to become a specialist or an authority, is very apt to kill what suits us to consider the more humane passion for pure and disinterested reading.
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When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul.
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I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'
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Counting the ways the Book of Mormon brings peace to the soul is like counting the sand on the seashore.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
