Clara Jeffery Quotes
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Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.
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I am a contrarian.
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Conversations about money certainly are not sexy, but they should give each of you some clarity and enable you to enter into your marriage with a better understanding of each other and what is important. Work and home responsibilities, joint or separate accounts, budgets, etc. are all subjects which should be discussed.
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I roll from my bedroom into my workroom in the morning and craft-craft-craft.
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I write for young people because I like them and because I think they are important. Children's books can be mind-stretchers and imagination-ticklers and builders of good taste in a way that adult books cannot, because young people usually come to books with more open minds. It's exciting to be able to contribute to that in a small way.
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I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake.
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Love is a kind of warfare.
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Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
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We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.
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We have a new puppy and that's enough! Two babies and three dogs is enough.
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I have no issues in talking about my personal life, but I feel it takes away from my career and my characters, especially when a film is about to release.
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The only feelings you really need to fear are those you ignore.
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The Labor Party is not going to profit from having these proven unsuccessful people around who are frightened of their own shadow and won't get out of bed in the morning unless they've had a focus group report to tell them which side of bed to get out.
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Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.
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