Ally Carter Quotes
Turns out, you can take the girl out of the spy school, but you can never take the spy school out of the girl.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
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We have the ability to be able, if we have the right resources around us, to really do chop and change and have fun in our time and not just be stuck in one world or the other.
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I've always been clear - I feel good at Chelsea. Every week, I repeat the same on PSG. It's a big team but an inferior league. I don't want to return to France, because I've won everything over there - the league title, cup, best player, best young player.
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But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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I love doing every role I do!
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Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
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I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.
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I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.
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Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.
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Albanians, we tan well! I don't burn; I bake.
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I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
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In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.
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I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.
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Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run... but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us.
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…death came so easily, hardly announced, without apparent cause, often greeted with smiles.
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I love being called NTR's grandson. I never moved away from his shadow, maybe because I didn't try enough or maybe because I like it this way.
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Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good, they have the spirit of the author within. Authors are rogues and ruffians and easy lays. They are gluttons for sweets and savories. They devour life and always want more. They have sap, spirit, sex. Books are panderers. The Jews are not wrong to worship books. A real book has pheromones and sprouts grass through its cover.
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I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous like a cake or shoes or handbags, and she won't be a threat to men.
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L.A. is still such a fascinating place to me, so big and diverse. It's so spread out that you can go from Zuma to downtown and there's really like 10 different towns in between.
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Turns out, you can take the girl out of the spy school, but you can never take the spy school out of the girl.
