Wells Quotes - Page 37

• Having been a cheerleader, I know all too well what these girls give up to join forces and compete.

  Kelly Ripa

  Girl, Giving Up, Cheerleading

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• Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's "yes," all's well. That is enough.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Believe, Sleep, Men

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• If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you may have, however meager they may seem, you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears. Without preparation you cannot do it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Mean, Opportunity, Preparation

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2014). “The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.

  Alexis Bledel

  Stress, People, Directors

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 8, 2002.

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• Necessity does everything well.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.265, Jazzybee Verlag

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• But a man's best friend is the one who not only wishes him well but wishes it for his own sake (even though nobody will ever know it): and this condition is best fulfilled by his attitude towards himself - and similarly with all the other attributes that go to define a friend. For we have said before that all friendly feelings for others are extensions of a man's feelings for himself.

  Aristotle

  Attitude, Men, Feelings

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• Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom she is rarely known and seldom welcome. She has no need of force to procure entrance into the minds of men.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Mind, Needs

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.114, Modern Library

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• Well, I am an extremely beautiful person.

  Steven Morrissey

  Beautiful, Memorable, Persons

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• When they bury me in a church and chuck earth on my grave, I'd like the words 'Well, at least he tried' engraved on my tombstone.

  Steven Morrissey

  Tombstone, Memorable, Church

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• Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats and emphases go. (If you get it wrong, any least thing, the editor will throw your manuscript out.) Punctuation is not like musical notation; it doesn't indicate the length of pauses, but instead signifies logical relations. There are all sorts of people out there who know these things very well. You have to be among them even to begin.

  Annie Dillard

  Editors, People, Musical

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• No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters, the well-worn situations, the commonplace story that excites your derision, seem neither hackneyed, well worn nor commonplace to him. ... The conclusion is obvious: you cannot write anything that will convince unless you are yourself convinced. The best seller sells because he writes with his heart's blood.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Writing, Heart, Character

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• We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Writing, Gusto

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.66, Courier Corporation

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• In Sri Lanka a well-told lie is worth a thousand facts.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Lying, Sri Lanka, Facts

  Michael Ondaatje (2010). “Running in the Family”, p.121, A&C Black

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• One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.

  Ted Danson

  Cheer, Ensemble, Actors

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• The only lifelong, reliable motivations are those that come from within, and one of the strongest of those is the joy and pride that grow from knowing that you've just done something as well as you can do it.

  Lloyd Dobyns

  Life, Motivational, Pride

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• Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year.

  Hailee Steinfeld

  Mom, Cousin, Eight

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Who here actually thinks I would do 50 Shades of Grey as a movie? Like really. For real. In real life.

  Emma Watson

  Boyfriend, Good Life, Real

  Emma Watson @EmmaWatson, twitter.com. March 16, 2013.

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• So many interviews, even ones that I consider really intelligent and good writers, will do the, like, 'Oh, you're not taking your clothes off like Miley Cyrus and all these girls' thing, which to me is just the weirdest thing to say to someone. ... Now when people are like, 'Tell me what you think of Miley!' I'll say, 'What do you think of Miley?' and they'll flounder and say, 'Well, I think she's really talented...' and I'm like, there you go.

  Lorde

  Girl, Fashion, Intelligent

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• You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Might, Thunderstorm

  General William Tecumseh Sherman (2014). “Memoirs Of General Sherman - 2nd. Edition, Revised And Corrected [Illustrated - 2 Volumes In One]”, p.829, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• At 8 o'clock in the morning a dense throng of workers - almost 10,000 - assembled in the square, which the police had already occupied well ahead of time. Karl Liebknecht's voice then rang out: 'Down with the War! Down with the Government!' The police immediately rushed at him. For the first time since the beginning of the war open resistance to it had appeared on the streets of the capital. The ice was broken.

  Paul Frolich

  Morning, War, Squares

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• Just wage a total war against these tyrants; I think we will do very well and our children will sing great songs about us years from now.

  Michael A. Ledeen

  Song, Children, War

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• It's a little bit over the top. I feel the same in my head I guess. I was quite a paranoid person anyway, so it doesn't really feed well when people are looking at you. I'm not really in the right job. I don't like having my photo taken. I don't like the attention.

  Robert Pattinson

  Jobs, Taken, People

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• People would be in hysterics if they saw that. It's like, wow, he's a superhuman moron.... So he wears lipstick, has a little bouffant, and does little circus acts as well. Oh, he's so sexy.

  Robert Pattinson

  Funny, Sexy, People

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• Outside of my family, I don't really know. They're great people and my parents are great parents, and they brought me up very well, I think. I don't know, I think that's about all the heroes I've had.

  Robert Pattinson

  Family, Friends, Hero

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• I was at a small private school in London. I wasn't very academic. My dad said to me, 'OK, you might as well leave, since you're not working very hard'. When I told I him wanted to stay on for my A-levels, he said I'd have to pay my own fees, then he'd pay me back if I got good grades.

  Robert Pattinson

  Life, Dad, School

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