Louise Rennison Quotes
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
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It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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I drove right into the music with the same sort of attitude as I went into the football stuff with. Just found a routine and hard work, and it helped me progress a lot faster.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
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My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.
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Every once in awhile, we all get a bad hand dealt to us.
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There's no question young drivers have far more accidents than older ones-but is it our aim to keep them off the roads? Or to allow only rich young people (who can afford the premiums) to drive?
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The only things stopping me today are: genetics, lack of will, income, brain chemistry and external events.
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Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.
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The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
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As I have often said, she has two styles of acting: with or without the beard.
