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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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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If more people follow their superpowers - and everyone has one - then we're going to be better as a society.
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When I'm in New York, my favorite place on the planet is the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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I would never bring a kid to a comedy show myself, but I have noticed that I can't stop other people from bringing their kids.
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By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
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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.
