Alice Morse Earle Quotes
Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a reason for being sunken other than a whim or increase in costliness.
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If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
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I need instant gratification.
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I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.
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The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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At 12, turned 13, made a movie with Sex Pistols and The Clash. Learned about a lot of things I never knew and hope will never know again. Don't know how my parents let me do that.
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This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.
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'Power' is really such a good show that I forget I'm in it sometimes.
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I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV. I have a million shows on my TiVo.
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Christians are being systematically exterminated.
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.
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Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.
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It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.
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We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue, bring some sanity back into the financial sector, and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way.
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In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.
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Live theater is my favorite of all the mediums that I have worked in, so I have every intention on coming back to Broadway.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a reason for being sunken other than a whim or increase in costliness.
