Jane Austen Quotes
For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?
Quotes to Explore
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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My father was in law enforcement growing up. He was a probation officer. And I've always understood the point of view of the peace officer, you know, because of my dad.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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I can't even imagine how it must be to be a solo artist playing with session musicians.
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I didn't choose acting. The universe did.
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I'd grown up doing children's theater there, and I always imagined myself being artistic director of a children's theater company.
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When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
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Because some of my at-home life was rough and lonely, I often looked to escape into my imagination. Science fiction provided a deep well to pull from and was something easily accessible to me.
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All we have to do is find something we love doing each day, surround ourselves with like-minded people, and put all of our effort into that one thing at all times.
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When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead.
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The very first film I ever made, when I was seven years old, when I got my hands on a camcorder, was a remake of 'Poltergeist,' which I hadn't seen yet because my parents wouldn't allow me to. But I made my own version of it, and it starred my brother in a bed sheet.
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What is God, and how do you believe in him - how do you not believe? It's a question the world continues to tussle with. People's beliefs get them in a lot of conflicts.
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I never got any training in how to write novels as an English major at Oberlin, but I got some great training for writing novels from anthropology and from Margaret Mead.
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At one point I was introduced to a devastatingly handsome young man -- beautiful, really -- with black unruly hair, large sensitive eyes fringed by long dark lashes, a full sensuous mouth -- and an irresistible personality. His name was Tony Curtis.
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Oh, so they have internet on computers now!
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First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.
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The final ballots represent players, managers, executives and builders who are top-tier candidates and worthy of review for consideration for election to the Hall of Fame.
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In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.
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This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
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Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that he may not be idle, but that he may exercise his own body and preserve it. His works are to be done freely, with the sole object of pleasing God.
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The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.
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For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?
