Jane Austen Quotes
There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.
Quotes to Explore
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If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
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I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.
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I'm a 'Lost' guy, I love 'Lost.'
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Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.
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Do I have to use my feet? Can I knock the window out with my head?
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The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.
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If there is one thing I object to, its actors talking about how tough their jobs are.
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Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.
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Its okay I'm wearing really big knickers.
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Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.
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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite.
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Otherwise there can be no progress with an administration in which there are terrorist organizations as members.
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The best revenge is to live well.
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Our bad memories and our bad experiences are what make us who we are and what make us grow and allow us to learn, if we choose to see the lessons in those experiences.
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This is a second chance for me, ... There's not much more you can ask for than that.
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Until 2005, I still thought of my surf lifesaving career as fulltime and kayaking as a pastime. I watched the 2004 Athens Olympics and saw people racing that I knew I could beat, and that was probably the turning point: I decided I should either do it properly or stop wasting time kayaking and concentrate fully on Ironman.
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Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality.
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We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.
