E. W. Howe Quotes
Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
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I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
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Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
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We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness.
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Bullies always have another target.
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I'm very happy I get to keep working - it's an insanely fortunate thing.
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The Disney deal for us, we are very excited to be their Pay 1 partner, where we are a big licensing partner of Disney all over the world in all different windows.
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I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands - millions, I should say - of people taking risks, becoming leaders in their community.
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Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.
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I think, honestly, my largest concern, there are a lot of unbalanced people out there, and all of a sudden, I'm the CIA poster girl, and our home in Washington, the front door was about 20 feet from the street. I went to the agency at a certain point and asked for security on a residence.
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I think every character I've ever come up with has been based on someone or something I've known.
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I say you are a coward and you are; I think you hunt only to reassure yourself that you are not what you are: the weakest thing to ever walk the Earth. He will come for me and then we will be gone, and you will be helpless for all your hunting, because Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords.
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My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.
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When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.
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Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.
