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• Do it the hard way! Think ahead of your job. Then nothing in the world can keep the job ahead from reaching out for you. Do it better than it need be done. Next time doing it will be child's play. Let no one or anything stand between you and the difficult task, let nothing deny you this rich chance to gain strength by adversity, confidence by mastery, success by deserving it. Do it better each time. Do it better than anyone else can do it. I know this sounds old-fashioned. It is, but it has built the world.

  Harlow Curtice

  Jobs, Children, Adversity

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• I don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Inspirational, Girl, Believe

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• Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but black and white films still hold an affectionate place in my heart; they have an incomparable mystique and mood.

  Ginger Rogers

  Heart, Black And White, Film

  Ginger Rogers (1991). “Gineger My Story”

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• I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Vintage, Clothes, Comedy

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• A friend often says I'm an old man in a young man's husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Men, Way, Young

  Interview with Dave Calhoun, www.timeout.com.

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• I don't feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it's so old-fashioned. I could write a whole novel on scrap paper, scribbles and things. I keep looking at it and something develops. For me, using a word processor would mean staring at a screen for too many hours.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Mean, Paper

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• The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is called a "hypothesis," but the word "hypothesis," though euphonious, dignified and high-sounding, is merely a scientific synonym for the old-fashioned word "guess." If Darwin had advanced his views as a guess they would not have survived for a year, but they have floated for half a century, buoyed up by the inflated word "hypothesis." When it is understood that "hypothesis" means "guess," people will inspect it more carefully before accepting it.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Mean, Acceptance, Science

  "God and Evolution". The New York Times, February 26, 1922.

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• I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else. I know that makes me a sap.

  Paula McLain

  Hurt, People, Missing

  Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.245, Ballantine Books

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• It used to be thought that the events that changed the world were things like big bombs, maniac politicians, huge earthquakes, or vast population movements, but it has now been realized that this is a very old-fashioned view held by people totally out of touch with modern thought. The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe.

  Neil Gaiman

  Butterfly, Views, Europe

  "Good Omens". Book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• The first expert said he had attention deficit disorder. The second expert said the first was out of order. One said he was autistic, another that he was artistic. One said he had Tourette's syndrome. One said he had Asperger's syndrome. And one said the problem was that his parents had Munchausen syndrome. Still another said all he needed was a good old-fashioned spanking.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Order, Parent, Experts

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• The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself. I was a child then, I had no idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters and the sea. Everything was romantic in my imagination. The woods were peopled by the mysterious good folk. The Lords and Ladies of the last century walked with me along the overgrown paths, and picked the old fashioned flowers among the box and rose hedges of the garden.

  Beatrix Potter

  Children, Growing Up, Flower

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• I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed up to hit a pedestrian or, or course, stop to kick a pedestrian who has already been hit. From which it followed, of course, that one would never ever -- on pain of deletion from dozens of Christmas card lists across the country -- vote Republican.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Country, Pain, Lying

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the newspaper. If you'll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you'll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Heart, Politics, Libertarian

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 25, 2003.

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• I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away. That is, running away in the heat of anger with a knapsack on her pack. She didn't like discomfort; even picnics were untidy and inconvenient: all those insects and the sun melting the icing on the cupcakes. Therefore, she decided that her leaving home would not be just running from somewhere but would be running to somewhere.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Running, Home, Cupcakes

  "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler". Book by L. Konigsburg, 1967.

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• Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands manufactured to precise specifications; we are so used to things transmuting into whatever we would like them to be that it comes as a profound outrage to encounter death, stubbornly unspinnable, only and immutably itself.

  Tana French

  Profound, Mind, Encounters

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• Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!

  Agatha Christie

  Girl, Morning, Night

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• If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or how Bach spent his weekends. At Eden-Olympia work is the ultimate play, and play the ultimate work.

  J. G. Ballard

  Weekend, Play, Eden

  J. G. Ballard (2010). “Super-Cannes: A Novel”, p.99, Macmillan

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• I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

  Wilkie Collins

  Fiction, Stories, Opinion

  Wilkie Collins (2013). “The Woman in White”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Sweet, Heart, Hands

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• It was such a sweet, sad song with such sweet, sad lyrics. Old-fashioned a little, but also timeless.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Song, Sweet, Littles

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• I stepped forward. Call me old-fashioned, but I wanted to keep his focus on me and not Annabeth. I think it’s polite for a guy to protect his girlfriend from instant incineration.

  Rick Riordan

  Girlfriend, Thinking, Focus

  "The Demigod Diaries (The Heroes of Olympus)". Book by Rick Riordan, August 14, 2012.

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• The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.

  Sean O'Casey

  Military, Fighting, Army

  Sean O'Casey (1973). “Sunset and evening star”, Pan

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• As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Flower, Garden, Sake

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.98, Applewood Books

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• They mention that it's a nonstop flight. Well, I must say I don't care for that sort of thing. Call me old fashioned, but I insist that my flight stop. Preferably at an airport.

  George Carlin

  Humorous, Food, Airports

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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