Ally Carter Quotes
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What I want is for people to really grab hold of language and not be nervous about it. 'The Word Spy' is all about diving in and playing with words.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
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I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!
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I love spin classes. I'm also very big on music, so I make a mix on my iPod that's 45 minutes to an hour long of music that pumps me up so I know how much time I've been at the gym without looking at the clock. Put your favorite songs towards the end of the mix, so this way you keep going until you hear your favorite song.
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We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
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First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare.
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'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it.
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I'm such a bikini girl. Generally, I like to be as half-naked as I possibly can.
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Some of the aspects of my speaking style are inherited and come naturally to me. I didn't take classes, and I didn't do anything to hone my skills.
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I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life.
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Poor laborers from all parts of Asia as well as Africa, the Americas and even Europe are transported by plane each day to wealthier nations where low-tier jobs are plentiful; sometimes the travelers board without even knowing their final destination.
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There is plenty of television. There are plenty of talk shows. There are plenty of comedians. But there is not plenty of worship of the true and living God.
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Non-consensual, sexual advances are not the same as flirtatious comments from a creepy dude. The degree of harassment matters.
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The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
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High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste.
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I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.
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Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts.
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Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.
