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• What's this outfit? You can't afford clothes? Are you wearing other peoples?" Helen Plum

  Janet Evanovich

  Clothes, Plums

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• My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.

  J. C. Watts

  Growing Up, Boys, Views

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• In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.

  J. C. Watts

  Children, Oklahoma, Imagination

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• It's OK to sit in the Golden Globe room and look around and think, 'Oh, Helen Mirren's a loser tonight, so is Nicole Kidman. Meryl Streep lost tonight. Jessica Lange didn't win.' If you're gonna be in the company of losers, that's the company to be in.

  Sarah Paulson

  Winning, Thinking, Looks

  "‘American Horror Story’ Finale: Sarah Paulson Defends Lana Winters, Talks End Of ‘Asylum’ And More" by Jaimie Etkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2010.

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• People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am. Sometimes they think I'm Helen Hunt. Sometimes they think I'm Laura Dern.

  Laura Linney

  Thinking, Who I Am, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Even Helen Keller, who was born blind and deaf, could see God. No doubt, in her silent darkness, every fragrant flower, every ray of the warm sun, every taste that touched her tongue told her that there was a God who created all things. Jodie Foster shouldn't therefore be surprised that people are surprised that she's an atheist.

  Ray Comfort

  Atheist, Flower, People

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• When I was driving home, I just thought about the word 'special'. And I thought the last person who said that about me was my Aunt Helen. I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think everyone is special in their own way. I really do.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Grateful, Home, Aunt

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• Irene-" "Don't call me that." "You were the princess Irene the first time we met." "It means 'peace'," Attolia said. "What name could be more inappropriate?" "That I be named Helen?" Eddis suggested. The hard lines in Attolia's face eased, and she smiled. Eddis was a far cry from the woman whose beauty had started a war.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  War, Princess, Mean

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• Blue." It was Ronan's voice, for the first time, and everyone, even Helen, twisted their head towards him. His head was cocked in a way that Gansey recognized as dangerous. Something in his eyes was sharp as he stared at Blue. He asked, "Do you know Gansey?" ... Blue looked defensive under their stares. She said reluctantly. "Only his name." With his fingers loosely together, elbows on his knees, Ronan leaned forward across Adam to be closer to Blue. He could be unbelievably threatening. "And how is it," he asked," you came to know Gansey's name?

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Eye, Blue, Names

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• If Helen Keller had psychic ability, would you say she had a fourth sense? What year did Jesus think it was?

  George Carlin

  Jesus, Stupid, Thinking

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• O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Time, Wrinkles, Mirrors

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.442, GENERAL PRESS

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• Helen Weaver’s book was a revelation to me! Although I was a young woman in the fifties, I was there, but I wasn’t there! This is the most graphic, honest, shameless and moving documentary of what the newly liberated women in cities got up to–how they lived, loved and created. Who knew? It is time they did! And here’s how.

  Carolyn Cassady

  Moving, Book, Cities

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• When I was a kid, I had THE biggest crush on Helen Reddy. I mean like for REAL crush - like 'spend some time in the bathroom thinking about her' crush. I blme Pete's Dragon. There she was - flushed, singing, clas in a tight wet plaid shirt. Judas Priest she was fabulous.

  Corey Taylor

  Crush, Real, Mean

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• Helen Rosevere was a British medical missionary in the Congo years ago during an uprising. Her faith was strong and her trust was confident, yet she was raped and assaulted and treated brutally. Commenting later, she said, "I must ask myself a question as if it came directly from the Lord, 'Can you thank Me for trusting you with this experience even if I never tell you why?'" What a profound thought. God has trusted each of us with our own set of unfair circumstances and unexplained experiences to deal with. Can we still trust in Him even if He never tells us why?

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Strong, Years, Uprising

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• Did you get Mom a birthday present?" Helen asked. "Yes," Gansey replied. "Myself." "The gift that keeps on giving." "I don't think that minor children are required to get gifts for their parents. I'm a dependent. That's the definition of dependent, is it not?" "You, a dependent!" his sister said, and laughed. "You haven't been a dependent since you were four. You went straight from kindergarten to old man with a studio apartment.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mom, Children, Men

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• The generation now below me were born into a world where if you're a kid with raw talent now, you can roll in and land a lead in a Scorsese film. You don't have to have prove yourself by working up the ranks, doing the classics, and getting the canon under your belt in the way the great Sirs and Dames of mom and dad's generation - the [Ben] Kingsleys and [Helen] Mirrens and [Anthony] Hopkinses and people of that ilk.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Mom, Dad, Kids

  Interview with Gary Oldman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 11, 2013.

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• With Blue here, he was beginning to feel as if possibly he'd overdone it with the helicopter. He wondered if it would make Blue feel better or worse to know that it was Helen's helicopter, that he hadn't paid anything today for the use of it. Probably worse. Remembering his vow to at least do no harm with his words, he kept his mouth shut.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Feel Better, Blue, Use

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.159, Scholastic Inc.

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• And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?...You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?...Y-yes, but, you are in fact... human?

  C. S. Lewis

  Girl, Daughter, Mean

  "Fictional characters: Mr. Tumnus, the Faun; Lucy Pevensie". "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the intensity of their talk, the charm that had been lent him by sincerity, the magic of Oniton under darkness and of the whispering river. Helen loved the absolute. Leonard had been ruined absolutely, and had appeared to her as a man apart, isolated from the world. A real man, who cared for adventure and beauty, who desired to live decently and pay his way, who could have travelled more gloriously through life than the Juggernaut car that was crushing him.

  E. M. Forster

  Crush, Real, Adventure

  E. M. Forster (2016). “Howards End: England Literature”, p.273, 谷月社

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• What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend? Since everyone hath every one, one shade, And you, but one, can every shadow lend. Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit Is poorly imitated after you. On Helen’s cheek all art of beauty set, And you in Grecian tires are painted new. Speak of the spring and foison of the year; The one doth shadow of your beauty show, The other as your bounty doth appear, And you in every blessèd shape we know. In all external grace you have some part, But you like none, none you, for constant heart.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Spring, Years

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Shakespeare's Sonnets & Poems”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• Even though Helen Vendler wasn't on the Harvard faculty when I came first in 1979, she was a guardian spirit; Robert Fitzgerald gave me the use of his study in Pusey Library. Monroe and Brenda Engel kept open house, Bob and Jana Kiely made me at home in Adams House. Then, too, in 1979, Frank Bidart, whom Id met in Dublin after the death of Robert Lowell he was over seeing Caroline Blackwood Frank brought me into his circle of friends, including Robert Pinsky and Alan Williamson.

  Seamus Heaney

  Home, Circles, House

  Source: harvardmagazine.com

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• The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining amid black planes of paint. As Helen enrages history. Senza uscita.

  Anne Carson

  Beautiful, Animal, Mad

  Anne Carson (2015). “Plainwater: Essays and Poetry”, p.88, Vintage

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• Meeting Helen Mirren was a fabulous experience. I had played it out in my mind, how I should greet her when we would be introduced. But the way we met was funny because I just didn't recognise her!

  Om Puri

  Mind, Would Be, Way

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• But I feel this, Helen: I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. It is as natural as that I should love those who show me affection, or submit to punishment when I feel it is deserved.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Punishment, Affection, Natural

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Life, Nursing, Together

  "Jane Eyre". Ch. 6. Book by Charlotte Bronte, 1847.

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