Katharine Tynan Quotes
The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.
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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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Early in the morning, it's super tough for me to eat right away, but I still need energy for practice. I try to start out with a protein smoothie, a green juice, or some sort of fruit.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
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I think there's a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel.
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The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.
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My idol is Bea Arthur. I really tried to follow her example. She is one of my comedy 'she-roes.'
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Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.
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The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start at Chapter 3.
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Kennedy was like a rock star. Carter was the earnest outsider at the height of Washington cynicism. Clinton was a bad boy who proposed his 'third way' of Democratic politics, and Obama brought hope and change to a country that so desperately needed it.
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A commodity producer should be comfortable being exposed to prices.
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Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death Pray for us now and at the hour of our death.
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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Father drove fifty miles each evening behind his spanking team of horses to keep his date with the Southern girl - carefully chaperoned by FOUR maiden aunts.
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Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?
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Pressure is something you put on yourself.
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Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.
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I loved playing the headmistress in 'The Falling' - she was so spiteful. She certainly fancied herself quite a lot.
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There is no question that international tourism is on the rise - we see it at Bergdorf Goodman; we see it in Miami.
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The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.
