Jane Austen Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
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I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel like you can pick your player. 'I'm the most like Gambit... or I'm totally a Storm.'
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When I'm reading material, if I'm a little bit afraid of a part and I'm willing to admit that to myself, then I'll do it, definitely. If I'm worried about being able to do it, to get it - I absolutely just love it.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
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Some growths can be detected early, making for increased accuracy in diagnosis. Some can be cured and others controlled.
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And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts.
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I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.
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Life at best is bittersweet.
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There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!
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Visit any bookshop in Europe, and the shelves are filled with English novels and non-fiction books in translation - while British bookshops stock mainly English and American works.
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.
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Jimmy Grants is my first stop every time I go home to Australia. They make the best souvlakis you have ever tasted.
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I should be concentrating on writing pages.
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Evolution is your solution.
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I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice.
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There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however na?ve that may have been, it was a good deal less na?ve than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end.
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If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times.
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I'm very troubled when editors oblige their film critics to read the novel before they see the film. Reading the book right before you see the film will almost certainly ruin the film for you.
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What could I do! Facts are such horrid things!
