Jane Austen Quotes
We are to have a tiny party here tonight. I hate tiny parties, they force one into constant exertion.
Quotes to Explore
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
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I get a lot of backlash for wearing designers that I feel are creators and artists. I get it all the time.
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Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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I don't think there is much American music.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureheads, objects, like queens. It's a powerful yet politically powerless role.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.
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Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
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They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.
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In a lot of places in the United States and certainly even more places around the world, the image of the cowboy has become, for some people, a negative one. The word 'cowboy' implies a strong, stubborn individual whose individualism depends on pulling down other people's individualism.
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After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.
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I'm starting to see players copy what I do. I'm flattered.
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I'm cute - and God I hate that. Because that's not cool. I'm like your niece, and nobody wants to date their niece. It's the chubby cheeks. The whole reason people voted for me on American Idol is because I'm an everyday, normal girl.
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All my life I've been lonely. I've been lonely at crowded parties. I've been lonely in the middle of kissing a girl and I've been lonely at camp with hundreds of fellows around. But now I'm not lonely any more.
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We are to have a tiny party here tonight. I hate tiny parties, they force one into constant exertion.
