Elizabeth Ann Seton Quotes
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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I love zoo sanctuaries.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and only hiring unskilled labor.
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I want my legacy to be about the soccer, and if I can help people be happier in life in any capacity, awesome.
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There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.
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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
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Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.
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Whether you are pro-choice or strongly pro-life, as I am, there should be common ground that abortion ceases to be an option when a baby can live outside the mother's womb or experience excruciating pain from a procedure.
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Acting is a way to escape who you are for a short period of time. It doesn't happen all the time , but every now and then, the sensation of being 'other' is very profound. You get this moment where you are no longer yourself. You lose consciousness of the crew or the audience... it's a thrilling moment. And even quite spiritual.
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A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.
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Live simply, so that all may simply live.
