Anna Sewell Quotes
If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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There was a time when caddies couldn't wear shorts.
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I'm very happy in my life, but I do feel that music has a power to transport you to places or to beautiful moments in your past.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
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The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
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My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.
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I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at windmills.
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People never expected a boy from a small town to have a life like I did.
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I was definitely a Daddy's boy.
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Some people are brilliant on the first take, some people are brilliant on the fourth take, and when you are doing a group scene, you kind of have to figure that out.
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I didn't want to be known. People say, 'I didn't want to toil in obscurity.' I like toiling in obscurity.
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Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
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I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.
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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?
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If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.
