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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.
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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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I love to tell stories, but the making is less comfortable. I like to be private, and being in the middle of a film crew with the least amount of privacy is the discomfort of shooting a movie. For me, the editing is the great moment when I can bring back ideas and realize the movie for the last time before I hand it to the audience.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
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It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.
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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.
