Elizabeth Keckley Quotes
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.
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It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.
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It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s.
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I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
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It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender and rosy little feet of a baby, and (cold as they now are) were kept warm in his mother's hand.
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An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.
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When I first read 'At Freddie's', I was struggling with my own writing, particularly with how to write about a sad subject - the death of a parent - without writing an entirely sad book.
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And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves.
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My experience of fiction was, in the beginning, so exploratory. I wasn't sitting down to a desk at Yaddo with a month, thinking I have to have a draft of a novel.
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The whole vanity aspect of building up different muscles - I have no interest.
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I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.
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Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.
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It's a professional military. You sign up and agree to allow your countrymen to use your life as they see fit for the next four years. And I think we all should have a greater role in ensuring that we use those lives wisely.
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The darker the film, the more vital everyone's sense of humor is on set.
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Κλύειν δίκαιος μᾶλλον ἢ πρᾶξαι θέλεις.
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We in Microsoft are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.
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In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
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Friends are a recompense for all the woes of the darkest pages of life.
