Jane Austen Quotes
A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.

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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
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I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. But I don't want them anywhere near my spirituality.
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I'm very happy in my life, but I do feel that music has a power to transport you to places or to beautiful moments in your past.
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I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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The troops aren't red and blue. They're not black and white. They're not male and female. They are Americans! When they put their uniforms on, they are Americans. And that's a fact.
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Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.
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It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
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Most of my writing work has been in film. I have done some TV, but most of it has been in film.
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When forced to survive in an apocalyptic world, there are some characters that embrace their higher selves with some emerging as natural born leaders, and others succumb to their more base and primal selves and basically transform into savages. It's really a fascinating character study in the exploration of the human psyche.
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Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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Be yourself, but always your better self.
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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
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A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.