Anne Bronte Quotes
His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.
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We would like to make it quite clear that we are not migrants into the U.K. But we are the citizens of a state that belongs to the European Union who can take jobs anywhere freely within the European Union.
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I believe we are our own inner hand - the godly power resides within each of us to create the lives we desire - no matter what the challenges!
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For decades I've been told by my adversaries in the Religious Right that they only seek a “place at the table” for their Christian worldview—well, their version of Christianity, that is. But evidence has mounted recently that what they really want is something else entirely: to own the table, determine what goes on it, and force-feed everyone the same gruel they consume.
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In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.
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When I eat cilantro, it's like someone sprayed perfume down my throat. It closes up my throat, even if there's only a little piece. I like Mexican food, and I'll go out to a Mexican restaurant and tell them, 'Look, I will die if you get cilantro in my food.' Then there's always that one little piece that falls in, and I gag.
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I never have such luxury of leisure time. But whenever I get some time, I catch up on watching movies, keep going to theatre to watch plays, gigs of my actor friends.
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His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.
