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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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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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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Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
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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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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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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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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
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To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
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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.
