Ally Carter Quotes
So far Kat has been through all the Wa's she could think of, but Hale hadn't admitted to being Walter or Ward or Washington. He'd firmly denied both Warren and Waverly. Watson had prompted him to do a very bad Sherlock Holmes impersonation throughout a good portion of a train ride to Edinburgh, Scotland. And Wayne seemed so wrong she hadn't even tried. Hale was Hale. And not knowing what the W's stood for had become a constant reminder to Kat that, in life, there are some things that can be given but never stolen. Of course, that didn't stop her from trying.
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing.
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Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
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I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'
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I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
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In a way, he lost some of himself, some of his knack, and therefore some of the choices he might have had in life. But in losing those, he gained so much more freedom, so much more power, that he was clear winner in the bargain.
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Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics.
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My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.
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You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don't know if that would happen today.
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So far Kat has been through all the Wa's she could think of, but Hale hadn't admitted to being Walter or Ward or Washington. He'd firmly denied both Warren and Waverly. Watson had prompted him to do a very bad Sherlock Holmes impersonation throughout a good portion of a train ride to Edinburgh, Scotland. And Wayne seemed so wrong she hadn't even tried. Hale was Hale. And not knowing what the W's stood for had become a constant reminder to Kat that, in life, there are some things that can be given but never stolen. Of course, that didn't stop her from trying.
