Tracy Chevalier Quotes

I try to write 1,000 words a day - about three pages. When I reach 1,000 words I feel good. Less than that: a failure. More than that: tired.

Tracy Chevalier

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I'm no good at really anything that involves motor skills.

Jesse Eisenberg

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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

John D. Rockefeller

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We need a straitjacket around Congress when it comes to spending so that they are forced to do what 49 states are required to do and what every family business and every family is required to do, and that's live within their means.

John Cornyn

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For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.

Robert Rainy

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I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.

Michael Caine

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You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.

Stanley Baldwin

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I always thought I'd become an immigration lawyer.

Su-chin Pak

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Some of my happiest moments are the ones I spend with my husband, a few close relatives, and a handful of very good friends who know me well and like me anyway.

Robin Marantz Henig

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A writer without a pen would be like a duck without water!

Donovan

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Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.

William Graham Sumner

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It doesn't really exist; it's just basically lots of different stages between the two pieces, and you end up with, like, a third shape that doesn't exist but is suggested to you by the image.

Sean Booth

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I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils.

Howard Dean

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