E. W. Howe Quotes
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.
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Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.
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More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like it's fun and they're involved and are just, like, friends hanging out in somebody's living room. I went to see Carole King on her 'Living Room' Tour, and that's the kind of feeling I'm aiming for.
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I wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends.
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I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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'Ulysses' is like a big box of tricks that you can dive into. Each time you read it, you find something new.
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I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind and really put it out there as they saw it.
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It's a rule when you're welcomed in the Marvel family that you have to understand that you're going to be living in a code of silence.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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I've surfed the Web and the whole dating connection. I find that pretty fascinating, but no real leads.
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If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
