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Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: canadian
Birth: November 30, 1874 - April 24, 1942

Topics

World More Things Use Many Any

If someone's lying about something small, you don't know what else they're lying about. I'm a big girl, I can handle the truth - even if it's not good news.

Jennifer Morrison

Good Girl Truth Small Someone You

Talking to the press is not always good.

Good Talking Always Press

Not everything is going to be handed to you just because you're talented with a big smile. Sometimes you just gotta get out and shoot jumpers for hours and hours and hours. That's something I didn't really get a grasp on until way later, waking up early and treating it like a job if you're serious about it. Get the freak up and, you know, work.

Work Smile Job You Early Sometimes

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

Age Way My Own Own Cut Knew

When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but that's another story.

Teen Me Writing Story Movies Than

I think that the idea of wanting to fight for your kids, but also knowing that your wife is probably better at it, is something that rings very true for me.

John Ross Bowie

Wife Fight Me Think Better True

The piano is an instrument that can easily sound overly thick, and I love to think that I can work with textures - particularly the inner textures inside the melody or the bass line. There is an analogy there with painting; I love paintings where you see colour underneath the colour and, underneath that, more texture and shape.

Work Love Painting Think You I Can

I don't really go around feeling very Irish at all. I don't go to Irish pubs. I've lived so many places, and I'm still so curious about the bigger world. It's grand to be alive in a time when mobility is so accessible.

Stuart Townsend

Time Curious World Feeling Alive Go

We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives.

Government Wise Reach Want Just Our

I started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners. Later, I went through a programme by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which literally changed my life. It was the turning point.

Life Moving On Moving My Life Canada

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.

Age Old Age People Youth Reach Done

Five years ago we were working on a new album when my health began failing.

Health New Years Working Five Album

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