Ally Carter Quotes
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
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Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
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Ted Kennedy is the only person alive who might know more than we do about Chappaquiddick, and he may not.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
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When I'm not training day in and day out I love to go out and dance, even though it is potentially in my contract that I'm not allowed to do that.
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I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.
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If you don't take an opponent serious, they surprise you.
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One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.
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I agree with Kathi Zellweger that sanctions mostly punish the ordinary people who live at the edge of starvation.
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I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I think writing was a way of withdrawing into my own imagination.
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Lance Armstrong: How bad do you want to win a stage in the Tour de France?
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I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.
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What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.
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Banks were once places to hold money and were very careful in lending to finance families as they built a future - bought homes, bought cars, took out student loans.
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I'm not Bill Evans. I'm not Keith Jarrett. I'm basically a singer who plays along with his voice.
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My biggest lesson in becoming a woman is to really love what I've been given.
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You know, Ms. Morgan, that was your mother you just hammered," Mr. Solomon said.
