Beatrice Webb Quotes
Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.
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Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.
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First, I would find an object which I would think is suitable for my characters and stories, then write about it, and in the end, I ended up with a house full of thousands of objects.
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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I condemn any form of terrorism and especially the terrorism that would affect my country and me.
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My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.
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We believed the world didn't need another commoditized venture capital firm.
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The best thing about being from Britain is that it's a melting pot of cultures, characters, and creativity. I couldn't imagine coming from anywhere else.
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Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.
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I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
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I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was.
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The barbarian chieftain, who defended his country against the Roman invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers to battle, by all that has power of persuasion upon the human heart, concludes his exhortation by an appeal to these irresistible feelings - 'Think of your forefathers and of your posterity.'
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If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.
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I haven't hit the bestseller list, but I consider myself one of the luckiest writers in the world, and this is mainly because of Grub Street.
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But those guys (on 'Idol') will never be known for defining a generation of young suburbanites like (blink) did.
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Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.
