Jane Austen Quotes
She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
Quotes to Explore
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They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.
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I'm not really into weight training.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
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I'm just abnormal. I'm a weird dude.
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Sometimes I wish I was more comfortable just saying what I thought and getting my point across.
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When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best... for yourself and for others.
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I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it.
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Here in the United States, hopefully, what we're building are not just pyramids, are not icons to one pharaoh. What we're building is a culture and a way of living together that we can look back on and say, [This] was good, was inclusive, was kind, was innovative, was able to fulfill the dreams of as many people as possible.
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I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.
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If you don't know each other you spend time doing research together, having dinner, and talking about your lives. You try to find common ground. Once you're shooting, the pressures are so intense; you really want to have a channel of communication open to you already.
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It's tough to sort of balance free time and schoolwork and work in general and family time and hanging out with friends, but it is manageable if you have a good support team behind you, which I do.
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She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
