Arthur Ransome Quotes
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Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
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I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
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I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.
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Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
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I wouldn't call myself religious. I'm spiritual. Everybody's a bit more so as you get older. I'm a cultural Catholic; it's inescapable, but I think I have to believe.
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My fans can see me grow up.
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I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.
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The Tax Division is committed to prosecuting accountants who assist their clients in fraudulent tax schemes.
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Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs.
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Given my district, it would not have been right to put together a 99-song playlist and not include Barbra Streisand. She has appeal across several demographics of the district.
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In politics, guts is all.
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
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It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.
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We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.
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Olympian bards who sung Divine Ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.
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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?
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Street floods are a regular nuisance in some low-lying areas of Queens like Hamilton Beach. Residents there have grown accustomed to swans and fish swimming in knee-high water in the middle of the road when the moon is full.
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You will always receive help within a second of a prayer. To recognize the help, you must see everything in your life from that second on as a part of the answer to your prayer.
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As an author, you think you know where the good parts and the bad parts are. And then you read to a group of children, and you learn when you're boring them, and you hurry through those sections to get to the parts where they're interested again. You start to get a sense of your story's rhythm and flow.
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Always have a dream that will outlast your lifetime.
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A pigeon a day keeps the natives away
