Jane Austen Quotes
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Broadway is really my life.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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I have encountered those who feel that libraries have served their purpose and are no longer needed. There are those who consider them a soft target when it comes to local authority budget cuts. In certain political quarters, there is a refusal to see that our public library service needs active protection.
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The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
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A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.
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Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
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With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.
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In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.
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I've played shows with injuries before but unfortunately cannot overcome having no voice.
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I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar.
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The number of people with HIV receiving Medicare benefits has grown over time, reflecting growth in the size of the of the HIV positive population in the U.S. but also an increased lifespan for people with HIV due to antiretroviral medicines and other treatment advances.
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I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.
