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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...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.
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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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When How Green Was My Valley finally wrapped, I thought John Ford was a walking god.
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Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.
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I'll be at the table, as I've been, willing to talk to any Republican who says, 'Look, my country is more important, this pile of bills is not going to go away, the challenges that we have is not going to disappear, we need to cross that divide.' I'm ready. I'm waiting.
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The life you want is waiting to rise up to meet you ... Will you accept it? Do you feel worthy enough to accept it?
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The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.
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I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.
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Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.
