Edna Buchanan Quotes
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Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.
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In the case of the Analytical Engine, we have undoubtedly to lay out a certain capital of analytical labour in one particular line, but this is in order that the engine may bring us in a much larger return in another line.
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My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
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Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.
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There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.
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McMaster, 54, is the smartest and most capable military officer of his generation, one who has not only led American victories on the battlefields of the 1991 Gulf War and of the Iraq War, but also holds a Ph.D. in history.
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The Democratic plan in the 'Affordable Care Act' has, I would say, more government support, more government regulation around trying to protect the finances of individuals, trying to protect people who had pre-existing conditions, making sure that they could actually be in an insurance market and not set off to the side.
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By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd grown up.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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The imagination is fertile. From seeds of the imagination, much is made manifest.
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The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him.
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Life is a death-defying experience.
