Alfred Austin Quotes
When held up to the window pane, What fixed my baby stare? The glory of the glittering rain, And newness everywhere.
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.
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When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.
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I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.
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I like to play 'Battleship,' and I also like 'Wordle' on iPhone. These are good things to play while you're on set. 'Words with Friends' is also great.
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.
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There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do your best. I think men are much better at compartmentalising.
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I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.
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Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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I'm more of an engineer with a law degree than I am a lawyer with an engineering degree in terms of how I think.
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My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.
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Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience.
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When held up to the window pane, What fixed my baby stare? The glory of the glittering rain, And newness everywhere.
