E. W. Howe Quotes
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The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
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With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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I'm bigger now than when I was eating meat. My lifts in the gym are better. I'm in better shape.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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I love sweets. Like, every week of my life, I've had a cheat day.
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Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!
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You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.
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Years ago, I worked in a newspaper office, and there were men that would have fits of temper, and it was just accepted that that's who they were, and everyone would laugh about it, but if a woman got upset or angry, something wasn't right: she was 'hysterical' or 'a little unhinged.' It didn't have the same sort of connotation at all.
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In my day, MI6 - which I called the Circus in the books - stank of wartime nostalgia. People were defined by secret cachet: one man did something absolutely extraordinary in Norway; another was the darling of the French Resistance. We didn't even show passes to go in and out of the building.
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NBC announced that during the summer Olympics they will set a new record by airing over 1200 hours of coverage. Which is amazing because that's 10 hours longer than the coverage of Reagan's funeral.
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A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
