Alice Morse Earle Quotes
Our Puritan forefathers, though bitterly denouncing all forms and ceremonies, were great respecters of persons; and in nothing was the regard for wealth and position more fully shown than in designating the seat in which each person should sit during public worship.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
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The starting point of all achievement is desire.
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It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it's quite like acting.
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We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.
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I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.
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Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
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I was able to do well for myself, make a statement in the league. I had a heck of a time doing it, but at the end of the day, it's about me and my family and being comfortable and being fun.
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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.
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So many (older) men and women are relegated to minor supporting roles, ... Christopher Walken. Look at him. He's a great actor and in a lot of films. But he's not starring in anything.
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Since I can barely write two books a year the best solution seems to be co-author projects. My goal isn't to get another writer to clone me... it's more to produce a book that shares my vision of positive, fun entertainment.
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The Italians live well. They have problems, like all countries, but they are well-dressed, the women are pretty.
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Our job as actors is to invent the things that bridge ourselves with the characters, so you have to build something if it's not there - you try and learn what makes people behave in a certain way.
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Our Puritan forefathers, though bitterly denouncing all forms and ceremonies, were great respecters of persons; and in nothing was the regard for wealth and position more fully shown than in designating the seat in which each person should sit during public worship.
