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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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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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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People used to say I'm weak in comedy. But, with 'Mahesh Khaelja' and 'Dookudu,' I have proved that I am good at comedy.
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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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I'd just like to be able to walk outside as everyone does and enjoy time with my friends, not feel bad for not wanting to take a picture.
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Universities are not places where police can come and arrest people. Let the children have a discourse as they want to. They will learn as they move on in life. But to target individuals and institutions is dangerous.
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I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.
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Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
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I love and honour [Paulus Aemilius, in Plutarch's Lives], for his fondness for his children, which instead of blushing at, he avows and glories in: and that at an age, when almost all the heros and great men thought that to make their children and family a secondary concern, was the first proof of their superiority and greatness of soul.
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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.
