Bernard Barton Quotes
No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.
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When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.
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Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.
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Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.
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If you will be the best that you can be right where you are, God will promote you and give you more.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.
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I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.
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Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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I grew up with an abundance of things from our garden, so fried food was not enjoyable.
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I grew fond of acting rather late. And that was because I was not getting any job. I had a few friends in Delhi who were associated with theater. They took me to see some plays in Delhi and Baroda. That led me to believe the I could also act. And it was after that I joined National School of Drama in 1993.
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Sometimes the times were dark and the outlook was lonesome, but where there is a will, there is a way. I pitched in and dug at my work until now I am where I am.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
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Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.
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So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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There are very few things that I love more than being on stage and performing, but more than anything, I want to be a positive role model for teenage girls.
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'Are you yourself a Christian?'The young man made a negative sign. 'The concepts of religion baffle me.''This inscrutability is perhaps not unintentional,' said the ex-priest. 'It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers and tricksters.'
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No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.
