Jane Austen Quotes
I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.Jane Austen
Quotes to Explore
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I am tone deaf.
Rachelle Lefevre -
I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
Sam Neill -
Part of America's greatness is its willingness to care for those who are truly in need. But those who defraud the system take money and resources away not only from American taxpayers but also from those who truly need help.
Gary Bauer -
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
N. T. Wright -
The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
Larry Elder -
We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
Rand Paul
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For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
J. B. Pritzker -
When I went to the 'Rush' audition, I was blown away by the script. I thought it was fantastic.
Daniel Bruhl -
Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.
Samantha Power -
I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.
Oksana Baiul -
The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
Oliver Tambo -
That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.
Garth Brooks
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By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.
Immanuel Kant -
I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.
Wendy Davis -
I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
Karl Urban -
You'd never look at a Rembrandt and say, 'That's just wood and canvas and paint - how much?!' It's all about how many people want it. It works on a pair of jeans as well - they're just material and stitching, and as soon as you walk out of the shop, they're worth nothing.
Damien Hirst -
I like musicals and I love music.
Wayne Rooney -
Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing.
Naomi Campbell
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It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.
Umberto Eco -
I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.
Flannery O'Connor -
In some exquisite critical hints on "Eurythmy," Goethe remarks, "that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate laws of harmony, so arranges the objects that they by their position tell their own story." And the rule thus applied to composition in painting applies no less to composition in literature.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
I never thought that I could make a living out of my voice, to be completely honest. I thought that I could probably keep playing pubs. And it was exciting for me to get even just a pub gig in my town or country, when I went to university.
Ellie Goulding -
I'm an emotional actor. When I'm doing a scene, I really believe it. I live the part as long as I'm in the scene.
Victor Mature -
I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.
Jane Austen