Jane Austen Quotes
Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
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The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?
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In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there's this big wave of girls playing football. Wow! I can't believe a movie's done this!
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I like that conventions want me to appear and festivals want me to come speak because they like the climate I attract. It's a good feeling.
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I love to sing random stuff. That's exciting for me.
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Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government is to liberate the power of capital so that they can have as much economic growth as quickly as possible, and then all good things will flow from that.
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An author's ability to bring a marketing synopsis to the table - along with a great manuscript - makes a difference in what books get picked up. This is true for both fiction and nonfiction titles. You need to show your publisher what you've got in your marketing arsenal.
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Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.
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As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.
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I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.
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Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
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I don't use my body to seduce, no. I just stand there.
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I tend to boycott all teenage reading while I'm trying to write my own stuff.
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Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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We're like a travelling circus... We're always on the go.
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
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I don't have to work; I need to work.
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Use a corrector to do all the heavy lifting under the eyes, not concealer. I spent years re-applying and layering concealer and Touche Eclat under there, when what I really needed was a good, peachy-toned corrector.
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As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
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I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my life, and I don't like to be compared to a filthy writer.
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A Clock stopped-- Not the Mantel's-- Geneva's farthest skill Can't put the puppet bowing-- That just now dangled still
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I think as a human being, as a mother, as someone who works internationally, I needed desperately to know a man like Louis Zamperini in my life, to know that there is hope.
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Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
