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Mary Augusta Ward Quotes

In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

Mary Augusta Ward

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: June 11, 1851 - March 24, 1920

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Art Trust Look Back Choice I Can

I never felt an obligation to say every single terrible thing that happened to me.

Amanda Lindhout

Me Say Never Single Obligation Felt

We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security.

Stephen Harper

Government Security See Own Handle

For 60 years, I was the most controversial figure in the country, and suddenly, I'm the most popular man in the land. Truth be told, I don't know when I was happier: then or now.

Shimon Peres

Truth Man Country Know Now Land

For me, it really is about the self-acceptance... the more time that I spend really accepting and allowing myself to be exactly where I am, the faster it is I move towards what I wanna be doing.

Tracee Ellis Ross

Time Myself I Am Me Doing More

We used to rehearse in unused lecture halls at Imperial and recorded our first album, 'Queen,' in 1971 while I was studying for my biology finals - it is amazing I passed.

Roger Taylor

Queen Amazing Biology First Studying

I think it actually started in my late thirties. I started changing psychologically, and it was difficult to translate that into my writing.

Mary Gaitskill

Writing Think Late Difficult Started

My novel 'Wolf Brother' is set in northern Scandinavia during the late Stone Age, so I was aware from the start of Norse influences. I used some Norse names, and the soul-eater Thiazzi is based on the Norse storm giant, Thiassi.

Michelle Paver

Age Storm Brother Start Wolf Stone

The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?

Lou Reed

Music People Die Why Dying Why Not

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

Joseph Campbell

Life Nature Universe Goal Beat Your

I can't wait until I have my children. I love the idea that they don't have to do something that they have no interest in, that they can do something completely opposite if they want to.

Drew Barrymore

Love Children Wait Want Something

By putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue.

Donna Shalala

Work People Me Calm Slow Down

I don't want to work all of the time.

Penelope Ann Miller

Work Time Want