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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There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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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 look back at my twenties and see that I was much less confident.
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The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
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With regard to life, modern painting is a revolutionary activity…We need it in order to transform the world into a more humane place where mankind can live in liberty…We must accept these things with passion. It means that we must live imaginatively.
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I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.
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At a very young age, I could look at people and tell that everyone was, in a sense, worthless in their own mind. And you couldn't trust anyone. No one was good.
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Live simply, so that all may simply live.
