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Mary Augusta Ward Quotes

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

Mary Augusta Ward

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Marriage Write Clearly Fiction Made

I always wanted to have a family - that was one of my big wishes. And in school, I'd taken drama, and I'd always wanted to act. I did go to drama school in New York, Los Angeles and London, and I did small parts here and there, but I never really had the time. Modeling was always paying more.

Family Time School New York Small

I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.

Jennifer Garner

Television Meant To Be Play Movies

I'm really Americanized. The only real Latina thing I do is cook rice and beans with chuletas and tostones. I do the healthier version of what my grandmother would have made: a lot less salt, a lot less fat, a lot more vegetables. Sometimes I serve it with brown rice, which is, like, sacrilegious.

Fat Vegetables Salt Sometimes More

As I've matured as a songwriter, I realize that if it's out there, it's mine.

John Mellencamp

Realize Out Mine Songwriter Matured

I don't want to get punched all my life.

Life My Life Want Get Punched

To reward work, to grow the middle class and strengthen the economy, to give millions of Americans the respect they deserve... It's time to raise the minimum wage.

Work Respect Time Grow Reward Class

Reconstruction is the great black hole that remains to be filled. Even experts on the Civil War don't really understand its full significance.

Great War Black Understand Civil War

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them.

Work Dreams You Turn Nightmares Lot

Electroclash is good because it's stayed underground.

Good Because Underground Stayed

All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain.

Out Pure Up Started Books Plain

Some people said my acting was a cross between Euell Gibbons, Rodney Allen Rippy and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.

Queen People Acting Jungle Said

I have been agreeably disappointed in my idea of the camels. They are far from unpleasant to ride; in fact, it is much less fatiguing than riding on horseback, and even with the little practice I have yet had, I find it shakes me less.

William John Wills

Ride Practice Me Find Riding Little

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