Astrid Lindgren Quotes
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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I've learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there's no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.
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In Genesis 6:3, it says man can live to be 120, but there is no scientific basis for it.
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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
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I don't second-guess our playcalling or wanting to throw it. Honestly, we've got terrific guys. We know how to matchup. We know how to get open. That part of our game is so intact.
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Where there is Torah it sustains the world.
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I just wanted to be like J.Lo when I started. The last thing I want to be is a model-slash-actress. But I love actress-slash-musicians.
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By the time I got to set for 'Cobra,' I think I'd lost about 28 pounds in about a month and a half. I didn't want to look back and be like, 'Wow, someone should stop eating PB and J's.' Like, if I'm going to look back when I'm 80, I wanted to be like, 'Wow, okay, I looked pretty fit. I used my youth right.'
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Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
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What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
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London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.
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The 5,000 or so acres of Royal Parks are one of the things that make London special.
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There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, sentences, paragraphs to make their fiction intelligible or interesting. I don't know any of these writers.
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So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.
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I believe that there are no mistakes in the universe, so I think it all happens as it should!
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One of the great things about music is how it can take you places.
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The heart of the gameplay is still about choice and consequence, which is what I've been doing since the '80s.
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At President Obama's direction, the U.S Department of Agriculture is working hard to unleash the power of America's innovators and entrepreneurs to build a green energy economy.
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I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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When she reached me she asked gently if I were O.K., what was bothering me. Fine, nothing, I said, but in a way I hoped confirmed incommunicable depths had opened up inside me.
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Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.
