Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes
I knew a woman who went about bragging of her troubles, so, of course, she always had something to brag about.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
Damon Lindelof
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
Obie Trice
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Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
Gary Gygax
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
Wendell Berry
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I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.
Owen Benjamin
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
C. S. Lewis
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
Rafael Nadal
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The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.
J. B. Pritzker
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
Oliver Tambo
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Salvador Dali
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I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.
Katey Sagal
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God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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They who see the Flying Dutchman never, never reach the shore.
John Boyle O'Reilly
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I want Tom Clancy, the Maryland novelist, to write the story of the rest of my life.
Christopher Buckley
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As an actor, these kinds of big-comedic-centerpiece characters is just one thing that I love to do.
Ari Graynor
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That is what thrills me, personally. Small acts of kindness; thoughtful, large acts of kindness. I feel like we're in a bit of a precipice, and I think that any beautiful energy on the kindness continuum will just help us fall into a lovelier place.
Bellamy Young
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Nothing real is pretty, she said. Only a doll is pretty. And a pretty doll drinks out of a tiny cup forever. A woman wants a big cup.
Catherynne M. Valente
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I knew a woman who went about bragging of her troubles, so, of course, she always had something to brag about.
Florence Scovel Shinn
