Ally Carter Quotes
Someday you will know that the heart is not always as wise as it is strong. - Uncle Eddie
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Your man wants to know that there's nothing you wouldn't do for him - if that's your committed relationship.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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I'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.
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The way I work is I like to immerse myself in the world of the film and in the character's lives, and then from that, I get a lot of ideas of how the film could be made, how it could be told.
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A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
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Pushing people forward simply because of their colour, irrespective of merit, would be most unfortunate and would of course lead to disaster. It would mean that Rhodesia would then develop into a kind of banana republic where the country would in no time be bankrupt.
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And I knew that it was better to live out one's own absurdity than to die for that of others.
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I have been an avid reader of 'Golf Digest' ever since I started playing this great game.
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I'm from Boston - everyone says 'awesome,' but there are a lot of people in Boston who say 'awesome.'
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All this wealth excludes but one evil,-poverty.
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The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable to bear it. It is the sediment, not the wave, of a sex. It is the antithesis of that highest and sweetest mystery - conviction by submission, and conquest by sacrifice.
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It made me wonder if perhaps our ancestors' crimes were not in fact far more terrible than they claimed. After all, the only histories we possessed told their version of what happened, and in their accounts they were completely innocent.
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I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. Ive got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.
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Someday you will know that the heart is not always as wise as it is strong. - Uncle Eddie
