Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
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Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay because it becomes a career; you start to feel at home. In the beginning of your career, you're focused on you: 'I like this place because I'm doing rewarding work; they take good care of me; the people are nice; there's runway for me,' etc.
Ursula Burns
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You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.
Iris Apfel
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Loyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter.
John Buchan
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My elder sister used to get the fashion magazines, and I would go through them and find things I liked and buy fabric and copy them. But I hated what I looked like. I mean, I was sooo skinny.
Lesley Lawson
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And so they are ever returning to us, the dead.
W. G. Sebald
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Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze reflect Vincent's eyes of china blue.
Don McLean
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As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.
Joanne Rowling
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You know, if you need 100 rounds to kill a deer, maybe hunting isn't your sport.
Elayne Boosler
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The United States is a key ally, a strategic partner, and a reliable friend of the Philippines.
Benigno Aquino III
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Father, mother, child, are the human trinity, whose substance must not be divided nor its persons confounded. As well reconstruct your granite out of the grains it is disintegrated into as society out of the dissolution of wedded love.
Cyrus Augustus Bartol
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Traveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching.
Pam Houston
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Look at what is broken in society, figure out how to make it better, and then, around that, formulate a business.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
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We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?
Abraham Lincoln
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Be a voice not an echo.
Albert Einstein
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I usually base my characters on composites of people I know. One trumpet player in SIDE MAN is really a mix of four different guys I knew growing up. Patsy , the waitress, is a mix of about three different people. I like doing it that way. I start with the characters, as opposed to plot, location, or some visual element. I write more by ear than by eye. I always work on the different sound of each character, trying to make sure each has a specific voice and speech pattern, which some writers could care less about.
Warren Leight
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Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a novel that I have read over and over and over again. Tess is a pure child who has an inner glow none of the others in the book possess. They reject her because she is different, and they try in every possible manner to destroy her, because they are jealous. It is an extraordinary love story.
Laetitia Casta
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It's really the creature of my own making from top to bottom. I appreciate that. And the good fortune, the perseverance, having the stamina to stick around longer than everyone else even after people write you off - that's always been a good motivating force in my life.
Ariel Pink
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I made a fortune getting out too soon.
J. P. Morgan
