Patrick O'Brian Quotes
My wife and I have spent most of our lives in France, and we are both pretty well bilingual, my wife more purely than I, since as a little girl she went to school in French Switzerland.
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
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I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.
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My grandfather started a school for the underprivileged in Chandigarh, and that is why we moved from Himachal to Chandigarh. It was a small school, where even I would teach while in school.
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I'm pretty much friendly and compassionate to everybody. But not to people in the ring.
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Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.
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I remember, when I was at school, we would have a 10-minute storytelling session where we'd all sit on the floor cross-legged, and the teacher would read. It became something we all really looked forward to. That was part of the reason I grew to love stories.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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I like when a girl knows what she looks like and dresses to accentuate those features.
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A woman's body is her body and what she wears or does not wear is her choice. Get over it and move on.
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One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
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I remember how much fun it was to pick out my lunchbox. My all-time favorite lunch box was from the movie 'Annie.' Also, I loved picking out school supplies! Trapper Keepers were my favorite.
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I'm the girl next door, not the sex symbol.
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There is no reason why any public school district in our state should be on a four-day school week. If anything, we should be extending the school year.
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The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.
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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
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There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.
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I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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We did a play of 'Frog and Toad' at my elementary school. And I'm not sure if this is part of the book or it was something that we made up on our own, but I auditioned to play the black hole, which somehow makes sense to me.
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We have the same team that we did before. But the race is getting tougher and tougher. It's only January, but we're already looking at scores after the game to see who's losing and who's winning.
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About all that is needed to put the world on its feet are the right qualities of mind and heart on the part of all men.
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Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.
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Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.
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My wife and I have spent most of our lives in France, and we are both pretty well bilingual, my wife more purely than I, since as a little girl she went to school in French Switzerland.
