Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
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Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
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Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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For more than a quarter of a century on active duty, my house has been my tent, and my home the battlefield.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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Don't let expertise fool you into seeing false boundaries or underestimating those with wild dreams.
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A woman who tells her age tells everything, and I won't tell it.
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I like to think I'm fairly grounded, and I have friends who will very happily tell me if I'm ever being big-headed. I know things will change. But I'm hoping it's nothing too drastic.
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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
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Soccer is one of those sports that pulls in a universal audience in terms of demographics.
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I've always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.
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On paper, it looks rough, but I had a great childhood.
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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
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In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence the theory of natural religion can be true only where there is no science; therefore it cannot bind all men together.
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The stars are silent.Voyager among dark harbors, I listen, but the midnight wind carries only the sound of trees and water lapping against the gunwale and the solitary cry of the night swallow.There is no dawn. No searing sun rises in east or west. The rocks over Calumal do not silver, and the great round world slides through the void.
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The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!
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I'm a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.
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It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious.
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The most important tool of the theoretical physicist is his wastebasket.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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I'd say that 98 percent of the bands we've played with through the years have either broken up or are stuck in some kind of '80s revival now.
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