Jane Austen Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.
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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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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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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'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.
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As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
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By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
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I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
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I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.
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I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'
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On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.
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We did like 12 shows, then we did the entire Ozzfest with the first half completely booked; then we did the second half with a couple days off here and there.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.
