Gertrude Atherton Quotes
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I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.
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Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.
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Do I have to use my feet? Can I knock the window out with my head?
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If there is one thing I object to, its actors talking about how tough their jobs are.
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Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God.
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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite.
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The best revenge is to live well.
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This is a second chance for me, ... There's not much more you can ask for than that.
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We need a collective moment where we commit ourselves to long-term solutions.
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I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
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The True Seeker must, before all else, cleanse his heart.
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Actors tend to get in their own way, a lot. A lot of times you will do things that will screw up your audition process. I was very bad at auditioning, and I always went in to it saying ‘God I hope I don’t screw this up.’ But at the same time, the directors are saying, ‘God, I hope this person is the savior.’ You have to remember is that the worst thing that could happen is you don’t get the job you don’t already have.
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Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.
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Earth's sweat, the sea.
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I'm just a loud-mouthed middle-aged colored lady with a fused spine and three feet of intestines missing and a lot of people think I'm crazy. Maybe you do too, but I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. The mystery to me is why more people aren't like me.
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Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
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Obstacles are an opportunity to create something new
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A year shall I endure for every day that passes until your return.
