Lisa Kleypas Quotes
I'd gone to Wellesley College, an amazing women's college where the students were encouraged to follow our dreams. However, after I graduated and had a historical romance published, more than a few people indicated that, in some way, my career choice was a 'waste' of so much education.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
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The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
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I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.
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Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.
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The shot will go smoothly only when it takes the archer himself by surprise.
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Women are not weaker. Read that again. Women are not weaker. They are just as strong, just as resolute, just as creative, and are filled with just as much potential as any man.
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I have no pity for myself either. So let it be veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.
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I started out as a farm girl in Iowa, and I dreamed of being an astronaut and an explorer. And I made it.
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I'd gone to Wellesley College, an amazing women's college where the students were encouraged to follow our dreams. However, after I graduated and had a historical romance published, more than a few people indicated that, in some way, my career choice was a 'waste' of so much education.
