Born Quotes
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To be born a Southern woman is to be made aware of your distinctiveness. And with it, the rules. The expectations. These vary some, but all follow the same basic template, which is, fundamentally, no matter what the circumstance, Southern women make the effort. Which is why even the girls in the trailer parks paint their nails. And why overstressed working moms still bake three dozen homemade cookies for the school fund-raiser. And why you will never see Reese Witherspoon wearing sweatpants. Or Oprah take a nap.
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It does not seem to me as if I were living in the country in which I was born.
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Your story matters, who you are matters, tonight matters, none of it is an accident. You were born for the blue skies.
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But calm, white calm, was born into a swan.
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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
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For me it is a matter of pride that I have been born in the age in the which Tendulkar is playing
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Making drawings with text in the first place, it really was born of a desire to be economic, and to do things as simply as possible, and to do as much as I could by the most economic means.
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It seemed like life was a sort of narrowing tunnel Right when you were born, the tunnel was huge. You could be anything,. Then, like, the absolute second after you were born, the tunnel narrowed down to about half that size....I figured on the day you died, the tunnel would be so narrow, you'd have squeezed yourself in with so many choices, that you just got squashed.
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There is a time for everything - a time for being born and a time for coming of age. There is a time for death, too.
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I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones.
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Michael Cera was born in Canada in 1988 at the tender age of zero.
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Our Revolution was born and raised in taverns.
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I was born with the courage to live. Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools.
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Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.
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Shrews are made, not born.
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From What-is all the world of things was born But What-is sprang in turn from What-is-not.
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My only crime was being born black - or being born black in Alabama.
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No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.
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A word does not say anything And at the same time it hides everything Just as the wind that hides the water Like the flowers that mud hides. A glance does not say anything And at the same time it says everything Like rain on your face Or an old treasure map A truth does not say anything And at the same time it hides everything Like a bonfire that does not go out Like a stone that is born dust. If one day you need me, I will be nothing And at the same time I will be everything Because in your eyes are my wings And the shore where I drown.
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The characters are born from repetition, from repeatedly thinking about them. I have their outline in my head. I become the character and as the character I visit the locations of the story many, many times. Only after that I start drawing the character, but again I do it many, many times, over and over. And I only finish just before the deadline.
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But what Davenport had been born into had taken so much from her, leaving her with just the wickedest and the worst. Her father had given her life, and then taken every scrap of joy or freedom, and even now that he was dead, all he had left her with was a deep, abiding hatred for what she was.
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I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe . . . .
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The portrait in his, and he's walking out of the house he was born in with blood on his hands and his head held high and his mother's face on his back, his own inalienable albatross, for all the world to see.
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You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.
