Colin Falconer (Colin Bowles) Quotes
A woman, though she is a queen, is meant by God to be instructed by her husband. It is the bishop of Orange who says this, and she smiles and imagines cleaving him with a sword, right through his skull to his breastbone
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The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.
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Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.
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It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.
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I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.
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I always had challenges when I was younger, because I looked so young but sounded older.
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My goal always is to tell a universal story, meaning it's about a person who has an idea, a vision, a dream, an ambition to make the world somewhat less chaotic.
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All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
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In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either.
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Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.'
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The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
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If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
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This industry isn't fair. It doesn't owe anybody a career. It's just about luck, determination, and showing up and being professional. The rest is out of your hands.
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I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
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In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend to be about how lucky they are to be where they are - about luck and identity and how the idea struck them.
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Peace is a blessing that comes to those who trust in God. It is established through individual righteousness. True personal peace comes about through eternal vigilance and constant righteous efforts.
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A woman, though she is a queen, is meant by God to be instructed by her husband. It is the bishop of Orange who says this, and she smiles and imagines cleaving him with a sword, right through his skull to his breastbone
