Lewis Carroll Quotes
Anon, to sudden silence won, In fancy they pursue The dream-child moving through the land Of wonders wild and new, In friendly chat with bird or beast - And half believe it true.
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
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I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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I never trusted good-looking boys.
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I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
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I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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Let us learn from the lessons of September 11 and not wait for a major strike before we act. We must work together - Democrats and Republicans, Congress and the White House, government and the private sector - to make our country a safer and more prosperous place.
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I think it's unfair that people can't give assets to whoever they want. When I die, my assets can go to my wife. And a gay person - you ought to have a system where maybe you can just say, 'You can give your assets to anybody you want.'
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I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
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I have crushes on women all the time. I don't have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.
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I definitely don't think of myself as being an influence.
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The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel and, of course, in my decision to write about a handful of particular conflicts in Africa as a journalist.
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I think you get the parts that people are comfortable with seeing you play.
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Anon, to sudden silence won, In fancy they pursue The dream-child moving through the land Of wonders wild and new, In friendly chat with bird or beast - And half believe it true.
