Laurence Sterne Quotes
'Pray, my dear,' quoth my mother, 'have you not forgot to wind up the clock?' - 'Good G-!' cried my father, making an exclamation, but taking care to moderate his voice at the same time, - 'Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?'
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
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My idea of the modern Stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.
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Shooting this show is pretty intense. You lose your life. But I have no life, so it's perfect!
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Anyone who wants to be an example to others, must first examine himself.
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Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.
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'Pray, my dear,' quoth my mother, 'have you not forgot to wind up the clock?' - 'Good G-!' cried my father, making an exclamation, but taking care to moderate his voice at the same time, - 'Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?'
