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.
Ursula Dubosarsky
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.
Adam Carolla
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
Nafisa Joseph
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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?
Sally Struthers
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I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!
Rachel Brosnahan
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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.
Candice Accola
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We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
Rabindranath Tagore
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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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.
Haile Gebrselassie
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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.
Zac Goldsmith
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
Samuel Johnson
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...the way we talk...you know that our people like to talk around a subject even when there's no danger. They enjoy it, and if they know you well enough they're apt to leave their true subject unstated so you'll have to supply the missing meaning.
Ralph Ellison
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Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it.
Al Stewart
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I'm such a bikini girl. Generally, I like to be as half-naked as I possibly can.
Poppy Delevingne
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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.
Bernice King
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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.
Elizabeth Gilbert
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When How Green Was My Valley finally wrapped, I thought John Ford was a walking god.
Maureen O'Hara
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One of my favorite dishes in the world used to be steak tartare, which is raw ground beef seasoned and then served.
Eric Schlosser
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I think that designers and architects need to educate the people who don't quite know what they do and make a strong case for why it's valuable and why it changes the game. I think waiting for people to come around to it just won't do.
Dan Pink
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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
George Eliot
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Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.
Ally Carter