Barbara Bush Quotes
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I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.
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I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.
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I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrassed going down the road on my road bike; I didn't want my friends to see me because it was embarrassing.
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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I cannot, will never, understand these couples who hate each other, who conduct open warfare in front of their children - the kind of people who have to drop the kids off at the end of the driveway in case they lay eyes on one another. At the very least, civility must reign.
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'Mais est-ce qu'il ne vient jamais à l'idée de ces gens-là que je peux être 'artificiel' par nature?'
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A surprising number of teens I meet in rougher schools around the country find refuge in novels and creative writing. It's not always the usual suspects either, the high achievers.
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Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.
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I think a lot of singer-songwriters get compared to each other, but I'd like to think that what I'm doing is special and specific to me.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
