Jane Austen Quotes
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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.
N. K. Jemisin -
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.
Samantha Shannon -
Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
Patrick Macnee -
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Victor Hugo -
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.
Queen Latifah -
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.
Karl Rove
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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.
Adam Grant -
I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.
Naomi Klein -
You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
Daniel Barenboim -
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.
Oliver Stone -
I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
Queen Latifah -
I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.
Abbie Cornish
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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.
Patrick O'Brian -
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.
Joanne Rowling -
I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
Yolanda Adams -
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
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.
Sam Hunt -
I drink maple syrup. Then I'm hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off.
Rachel McAdams
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Tile is going to the landfill by the metric ton. All we have to do it gather it up, glue it down to the floor and grout it. Then you have a tile floor, and not just any tile floor: it's a mosaic of your own choosing.
Dan Phillips -
This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.
Jack Vance -
If I spray it on the seat, lady gonna tie a big knot in the meat.
Alice Cooper -
Interestingly, one thing I've found that neither women nor men give up on is the idea of men as protectors. Even in cases where the woman is earning more, they'll often tell me that if there were a fire or something, they would expect the man to be the one to protect them.
Hanna Rosin -
A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.
Jane Austen