Kate Douglas Wiggin Quotes
Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
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I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.
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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.
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I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.
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I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
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In my opinion, nothing changes after you get married. If ain't broke, don't fix it.
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My family is from a tiny town in Alabama. So all I wanted to do was get out of this town.
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.
