Ethel Lynn Beers Quotes
All quiet along the Potomac tonight, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the picket's off duty forever.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.
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George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.
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My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.
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I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.
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What got me really excited about Tylko is the fact that it bridges the gap between tradition and technology. It expands the designer's ability to create a language, to create ideas, to create a set of proportions, a set of details, and to apply those across a really wide range of applications.
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I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.
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To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.
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To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.
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For as long as I can remember, we've been having debates about the foreign policy disasters and seemingly unsolvable problems around the world. Dinner conversations are replayed over generations - nothing seems to get better, and in some aspects, it seems dramatically worse, and that is especially true for women.
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Plans never go well for me. I just live every day like I ain't gonna live the next one.
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I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.
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The general market wants what I do.
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I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma.
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It would not be amiss for the novice to write the last paragraph of his story first, once a synopsis of the plot has been carefully prepared - as it always should be.
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I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him - he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.
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I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.
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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.
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My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.
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All quiet along the Potomac tonight, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the picket's off duty forever.
