Adelaide Anne Procter Quotes
Rejoice, oh! grieving heart,The hours fly past;With each some sorrow dies,With each some shadow flies,Until at lastThe red dawn in the eastBids weary night depart,And pain is past.
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I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
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It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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I really like clever men who challenge you.
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I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.
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I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.
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I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.
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I was brought up with old-fashioned values. I wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend until I finished school. I wasn't allowed to wear make-up: the nuns would scrub your face if they saw it.
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For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
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Jazz infers a style, but creative music has a wider field and wider specification about it. We know it from people like Scott Joplin and on through Bessie Smith.
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Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
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They're very strong in memory. Didn't do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing.
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For five thousand infantry would now cross the Kaitna at a place where men said the river was uncrossable, then fight an enemy horde at least ten times their number. ... The enemy had stolen a march, the redcoats had journeyed all night and were bone tired, but Wellesley would have his battle.
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I find television to be a bit like a meat grinder. It's like, you have a cow, you put it through a meat grinder, and out comes a hot dog. It's almost unrecognizable.
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Governing through federal ultimatum grates against our history, traditions, and, most importantly, our Constitution.
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Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
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Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
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Rejoice, oh! grieving heart,The hours fly past;With each some sorrow dies,With each some shadow flies,Until at lastThe red dawn in the eastBids weary night depart,And pain is past.
