Jane Austen Quotes
...why did we wait for any thing? - why not seize the pleasure at once? - How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
Quotes to Explore
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.
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Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.
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I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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I'm a political conservative.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.
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I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.
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I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
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He was the kind of man with whom one would have hesitated to pass a lonely evening, but with whom one might cheerfully have looked forward to spending six months.
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One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.
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One of my pleasantest memories as a kid growing up in New Orleans was how a bunch of us kids, playing, would suddenly hear sounds. It was like a phenomenon, like the Aurora Borealis -- maybe. The sounds of men playing would be so clear, but we wouldn't be sure where they were coming from. So we'd start trotting, start running-- 'It's this way! It's this way!' -- And sometimes, after running for a while, you'd find you'd be nowhere near that music. But that music could come on you any time like that. The city was full of the sounds of music.
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A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.
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Satin parva res est voluptatum in vita atque in aetate agunda praequam quod molestum est?
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...why did we wait for any thing? - why not seize the pleasure at once? - How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
