Ava Gardner Quotes
Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl's values.
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Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.
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Enthusiasm will steady the heart and strengthen the will; it will give force to the thought and nerve to the hand until what was only a possibility becomes a reality.
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The worst affected from corruption is the common man.
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Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow.
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With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
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My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.
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Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
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I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'
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I think that fame only goes to your head if you are not a real artist. If you are a real artist and a good person who loves what they are doing, you are going to be the same person.
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There are a lot of times where, filming 'It Follows,' I'm fighting against a guy dressed in a green suit for special effects, and I'm just like, 'No. There's no way this is going to be pulled off.'
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The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.
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All things are in a state of vibration. Vibrations from objects in our surroundings are constantly impinging upon us and carry to our senses a cognition of the external world. The vibrations in the ether act upon our eyes so that we see, and vibrations in the air transmit sounds to the ear.
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I'd be stupid not to take into consideration that there are certain things people will not consider me for because my name is Lopez. And I know I can do any kind of role. I don't want anybody to say, Oh, she can't pull this off. So those are barriers that you have to overcome.
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Everybody always asks me, 'How much can you bench?' I'm like, 'I don't know. I don't lift weights.' Now that I'm in college, we lift weights every once in a while, but not maxing out. We do things with a weight vest on... That surprises people, too, how strong you can get by just basically lifting your body all the time.
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There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.
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Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl's values.
