Felicia Hemans Quotes
The boy stood on the burning deck,Whence all but him had fled;The flame that lit the battle's wreckShone round him o'er the dead.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.
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I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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Time, motion and wine cause sleep.
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Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.
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Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way because I believe that one can transform destiny through self-knowledge.
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If you can dream it, you can do it.
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Most accountants are strange - let's be honest.
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I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.
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I do wear a lot of hats, and sometimes people get confused with all that I do, but one thing that I am extraordinarily passionate about is furthering women's rights. I think it's something that's incredibly important, not just for girls everywhere but also boys to get involved in.
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When I was a beggarly boy,And lived in a cellar damp,I had not a friend nor a toy,But I had Aladdin's lamp.
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I once asked Aragon, the historian, how history was written. He said, 'You have to invent it.' When I wish as now to tell of critical incidents, persons, and events that have influenced my life and work, the true answer is all of the incidents were critical, all of the people influenced me, everything that happened and that is still happening influences me.
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The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.
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When I was going to film school, before film school, my hero was David Lynch.
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The boy stood on the burning deck,Whence all but him had fled;The flame that lit the battle's wreckShone round him o'er the dead.
