E. W. Howe Quotes
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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Dramas make me laugh. The other day, I saw 'The Place Beyond the Pines,' and I was giggling the whole time. I laugh when I'm uncomfortable.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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My eye is ever on those who love me.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
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I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.
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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
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My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
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Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.
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I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year.
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My thing is I'd love to be friends with Thom Yorke but if he wasn't a nice guy it would ruin everything for me, I probably wouldn't be able to listen to his music.
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If you're lucky enough to have a position where people listen to you, you should say stuff you believe in - but not if you're Jenny McCarthy. Then you should shut up. But if you're right, like Amy Poehler, then speak up.
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If I announce something i'm making sure I'm doing it.
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Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.
