Barbara Cartland Quotes
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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I don't go to any sexy places to eat where they give you half a lamb chop and one bean. I like going, 'Uhhh, I'm done' when I eat.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.
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Desire creates its own object.
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But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.
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When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
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I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that's the first thing I look for. It's great when you meet a girl and three hours later you're like, 'Oh my gosh, we've been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?'
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Reflect on these questions - and others that these can generate. Please do not merely react to them.
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I have always lived with the awareness of the impossibility of living. And what has made existence endurable to me is my curiosity as to how I would get from one minute, one day, one year to the next.
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I've been playing hand-held video games since 1995. Its my way of training my brain.
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A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
