E. W. Howe Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
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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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The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
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Those youngsters go out there and set a record and clinch the pole position. But what do you do if you wreck your car. That record doesn't spend too well.
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He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.
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I insist to this day that if you read the screenplay to 'The Queen,' it leaves you in no doubt that we considered her an isolated, out-of-touch, cold, emotionally inaccessible, overprivileged, deluded woman, heading an institution that should immediately be dismantled in any free and fair society.
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Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.
