Jane Austen Quotes

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

Jane Austen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 16, 1775 - July 18, 1817

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I have a number of friends that try to live off their writing, and there's way more pressure for a hit or to write a certain type of book. You can't do a limited-edition short-story book with drawings unless you don't want to eat anything but ramen.

Joe Meno

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I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.

Joanna Newsom

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I admire politicians. It is a really tough assignment, and I would fall at the first fence.

Joanna Lumley

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My style is ghetto chic. I love tacky jewelry, mega heels, high-waisted shorts, catsuits.

Jessie J

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Living in this manner also gave them the opportunity to locate targets and develop methods of attack that would make the most impact on the population, infrastructure, and governments of these areas.

Jo Bonner

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I was born and raised in North Little Rock, Arkansas. I was 15 when I got my first job serving food to the residents in a retirement home - 22 years later I would shoot my first film in one.

Joey Lauren Adams

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Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.

Johan Cruyff

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I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that's not in me. I want to lift people up.

Joel Osteen

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I'm so vain, all I could think was I should have stopped at 'American Pie.'

Jennifer Coolidge

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JFK is a role I've always dreamt of playing.

Rob Lowe

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During prom season, I travel around the country with a 20-by-24 camera - which is logistically complicated - and photograph proms. My husband made a film of it.

Mary Ellen Mark

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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

Jean Cocteau

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