Ally Carter Quotes
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You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
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In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.
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I want to stress the importance of being fair to our readers. You should not impose your own view and prejudice on the readers and try to lead them to a conclusion. As a reader, I understand what a fair report is.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.
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As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.
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James Garner was a gift to our business and an example of honesty and pure class. It was an honor to have worked beside him and receive his bear hugs every day.
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My parents are my major supporters. I look up to Denzel Washington, Jack Nicholson and Jim Carrey. They have all opened my mind and helped me with my craft.
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You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.
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People like to see a guy being built up; they like to see a guy go from the bottom to the top, but then once you're on the top for a little bit, people wait to see you fail, and they want you to fail, so they find flaws and they find reasons, whether it's being too nice or trying to make you out to be fake - that's what they do.
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White America is in the minority.
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I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.
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Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay.
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Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.
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Do we regard language as more public, more ceremonial, than thought? Just as family men condemn the profanity on the stage that they use constantly in conversation, in the same way we may look to written language as an idealization rather than a reflection of ourselves.
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Commuter - one who spends his lifeIn riding to and from his wife;A man who shaves and takes a trainAnd then rides back to shave again.
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L'accent est l'âme du discours.
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Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.
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No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.
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Taking the chance of making a complete fool of himself - and, sometimes, doing so - is the first demand that is made upon any real critic: he must stick his neck out just as the artist does, if he is to be of any real use to art.
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The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really white, and that black people are not black.
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Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.
