Jane Austen Quotes
...she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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I have lived a carnal life.
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You graduate from film school and move to Hollywood. Hollywood tells you, 'We're not the place for you to make films,' so you decide you have to make a film yourself.
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I was a teenage girl once. I was not an overweight teenage girl, but I had really bad acne when I was 11 or 12 years old. It was heart-rending, and people made fun of me. People whispered when I walked by in the hallways, and I was sure they were whispering about me. My adult perspective is maybe they weren't.
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Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.
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I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.
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I've struggled a lot for what I have today.
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I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.
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You step over the threshold of your parents' home, and you're instantly transported back to your childhood. It's like time travel. You revert at once to a place of arrested development.
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As I got more into gay rights, I got more into equal pay, and you just see that it's all connected. You can't really speak out on one thing and not another without it not being the full picture.
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Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God.
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Imagine your ideal future. Visualize yourself as if your life were perfect in every respect.
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It's just a little bit of a correction on the yen front. The Nikkei (stock market average) was down quite sharply overnight but everything points to a stronger yen still developing.
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Every team we play is a rivalry in a sense, because you try to win every game. That's what it's all about. Who knows who came up with this rivalry?
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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I'm often very relaxed when I'm on the wire. There may be some tears because this is a dream of mine.
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Life is that which must overcome itself again and again.
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The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.
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...she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.
