Jane Austen Quotes
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
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I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing to do to another person. And anytime I have done it, even in the disguise of fiction, the results have been horrific.
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Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
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To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.
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It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
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I really don't want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarbons will come and go. But education will stay. It is the most important thing for us.
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The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.
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If you have life's experiences with you, nothing can stop you from being a competent actor.
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I think Hong Kong's ballet audience is very sophisticated in the sense that they are able to find the beauty in good performances.
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The butt is not a magical place that only gay people can visit, like a leather bar or the Liberace Museum.
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My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.
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As the era of the sword was ending, that of firearms began, in time to allow no lapse in man’s belligerent capacity.
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The young tree of resistance in Palestine is blooming and blooms of faith and desire for freedom are flowering.
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The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive.
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To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.
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It was here at the age of seventeen that I suspended my religious inquiries.
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I think I'm always changing as a writer and trying new things.
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I was playing with pencils while the other girls were playing with dolls.
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The way that I process and make writing work is I'm really telling true stories; I'm just putting them in a cape and putting an 'S' on its chest.
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Outside the golf course, I feel the pressure, and I feel what everybody else is feeling. But on the golf course, it's just the golf ball and clubs. And when I have that, it just puts a lot of pressure off of me. It just makes me very calm looking at it, yeah.
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Talking through troubles, staying calm in the face of adversity, that's what my father taught me. It's an invaluable lesson because there's no shortage of adversity and mistakes to be dealt with.
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I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.
