Lila Acheson Wallace Quotes
If I displayed this cup, I might look at it once or twice a week. By using it, I get pleasure from it continually.
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We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
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Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
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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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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
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Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.
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I try to write stories that will attract younger readers and make them feel part of a wider readership. I do not feel able to write books that are about, or even for, teenagers; and I am inclined to be suspicious of books which 'target' them.
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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Everybody is nicer to me when I'm in yellow.
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The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was pregnant and all that. He said, 'When you have that baby, make sure you take care of Brie first.'
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The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.
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You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.
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Do your best, one shot at a time and then move on. Remember that golf is just a game.
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Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.
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It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
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I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. 'Cars' is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.
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With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.
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Sometimes you have to listen to other people, and see what the audiences want. That's what entertaining is about.
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What I love about the Don Draper character is that he's so real and filled with all these contradictions.
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This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.
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Today the people stand at the door of the university, and it is the university that must be flexible. It must color itself black, mulatto, worker, peasant, or else be left without doors. And then the people will tear it apart and paint it with the colors they see fit.
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I think the more stability a person has, the more they can follow esoteric or intellectual pursuits.
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If I displayed this cup, I might look at it once or twice a week. By using it, I get pleasure from it continually.
