Jane Austen Quotes
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
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I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.
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I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
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The field of 'economics and organization' is still young and needs support. I have been a chaired professor much of my academic life and know that such chairs are important for recruiting and retaining faculty.
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A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.
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My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
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I'm really fascinated by lingos and colloquialisms that are outmoded and have gone by the wayside. I love the way people spoke in the '30s, and the amazing slang of the mid-'60s and '70s.
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I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
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I drive my own horses in a race. And I always have.
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And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.
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I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.
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I feel like when the task is more difficult for me it's more exciting.
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It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better?
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Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.
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China was the worst place I've ever been in my life.
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Every week, it's always something memorable.
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Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.
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Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig.
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Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.
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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
