Jane Austen Quotes
...for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.
Quotes to Explore
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Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.
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I bought a girl roses once.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.
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The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.
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The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren't monsters from the get-go, they're human beings first... and so what kind of human you are would dictate what kind of vampire you would be.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
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I am always plagued with 'I'm not skinny enough, I'm not in shape.' I am not naturally this super-svelte kind of girl. I'm okay with that in my personal life. But it is kind of hard at times. I feel inadequate, I suppose?
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I love Star City - it is my home.
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It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.
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We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might enjoy listening to ourselves. If anything we are trying to develop a vocabulary so we can converse more fluidly.
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.
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I was born in Argentina where polo is popular, and my father always loved horses, so he encouraged me to play. He's the main reason I started to play polo and get involved with the sport.
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When I travel, I just take what I need and I run. I always have my briefcase stuffed with work, even when I go on a holiday.
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I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.
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I feel like I'm one of the more creative artists in the game. I think I'm going to be here for a while.
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I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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This is not a case of a pampered athlete. He took it like a man. He took it like any citizen in this situation. He didn't whimper, he didn't cry, he didn't beg. He took it like a man.
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...for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.
