Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett Quotes
When people speak of Time's healing magic, they are simply being euphemistic about our human tendency - and perhaps necessity - to forget.Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
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I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.
Gary Jennings -
Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
Adam McKay -
I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.
Candice Olson -
Food still isn't my thing, but I've learned to respect its power and significance.
J. R. Moehringer -
Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.
Parker Posey -
For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.
Radha Mitchell
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If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.
Valentino Rossi -
Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.
Irwin Redlener -
I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.
Irvine Welsh -
History is filled with examples of men and women who rendered highly effective performance without the conventional badges of accomplishment in terms of certificates, diplomas, or degrees. Diplomas and tests are useful servants, but Congress has mandated the commonsense proposition that they are not to become masters of reality.
Warren E. Burger -
..it had been fun to be able to draw in the midst of boredom and misery..
Otto Dix -
The floor of Christendom and elsewhere is littered with wrecks made by old prophets. God won't stand nonsense from any man. Every man has to choose between Christ and Barabbas, and every Christian between God and some old prophet.
Charles Studd
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All the networks have always been willing to have ethnic people as the third or fourth lead or the best friend to the white person. But to actually let a black family or an Asian family carry a show, that's something where there hasn't really been a precedent set in terms of a real financial gain.
Constance Wu -
At the very beginning of my career I felt very strongly about what type of artist I wanted to be.
Miranda Lambert -
The funny thing about 'The Naked Brothers Band' movie was that we tricked the audience into thinking that we were actually rock stars.
Alex Wolff -
Going back, I wish I could have been in the moment a little bit more. I can't change it, but hindsight definitely makes me appreciative of the moment now - even if it's hard, or exhausting, it's all a part of the experience.
Lili Reinhart -
Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.
Daniel J. Boorstin -
I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.
Avi
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I feel like a pioneer with the split-fingered fastball. I was the first one to really throw it pretty much 100 percent of the time. It was a pitch that I had to have. If I didn't have it, I wouldn't have been in the big leagues.
Bruce Sutter -
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Martin Heidegger -
The real secret of magic lies in the performance.
David Copperfield -
The first game was against Wake Forrest - I'll never forget that game.
Bo Jackson -
When people speak of Time's healing magic, they are simply being euphemistic about our human tendency - and perhaps necessity - to forget.
Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett