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 type of leukemia that I am dealing with is treatable. So if I do what my doctors tell me to do - get my blood checked regularly, take my meds and consult with my doctor and follow any additional instructions he might make - I will be able to maintain my good health and live my life with a minimum of disruptions to my lifestyle.
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It's those moments when everything is on the line, and someone needs to show up in a big moment. I prepare my mind and I prepare my body to be ready for those moments. And I think it's just what I do. I live for those moments.
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What we can do where we live is advocate again to bring back to life the 10th Amendment, to bring back to life those boundaries in our constitutional system that were supposed to be the critical checks in the checks and balances system. Without them, we lose - gradually, we lose our liberty.
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When you live in Washington, D.C., you do get a sense, in a very direct way, of the durability of our government and really, the greatness of the American system.
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If you want a product that's thicker with a bigger battery, it's also heavier, more costly, takes longer to charge.
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Live simply, so that all may simply live.
