Alice Morse Earle Quotes
In the early New England meeting-houses the seats were long, narrow, uncomfortable benches, which were made of simple, rough, hand-riven planks placed on legs like milking-stools.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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TV is like a school. It is easy to shoot for a film. In movies, you have a definite start and end. You know your character is there for a particular period.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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Everything can be satirized.
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Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
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Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'
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Reading is a huge part of life.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
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All of the Marvel characters have flaws to them; all of them have a deep humanity to them.
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It's amazing to impact people's lives - it's a cool thing to have the spotlight and be able to reassure people, to say, "It's OK to be you."
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If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.
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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.
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The climbs up the Hand of Fatima, which is 2,000 feet, and Naga Parbat, which is just over 15,000 feet, were spectacular. The Hand of Fatima and the Kaga Tondo, in Mali, is a personal favourite of mine.
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In the early New England meeting-houses the seats were long, narrow, uncomfortable benches, which were made of simple, rough, hand-riven planks placed on legs like milking-stools.
