It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Alfred Adler
Recitation: by Male by Female
I've always written about people who have very abstracted in a certain way. I write about scientists and artists and musicians. I write about people who live in their heads who are very obsessed about a certain set of details in the physical world.
Andrea Barrett
LivePeopleWorldDetailsMusicians
I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.
Ann Landers
BelieveYouCowKnowMilk
The South is like my favorite pair of blue jeans. It's shrunk some, faded a bit, got a few holes in it. it just might split at the seams. It doesn't look much like it used to, but it's more comfortable, and there's probably a lot of wear left in it.
John Shelton Reed
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My father was very strict.
Alyssa Edwards
FatherStrictVery
I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth.
Roger Maris
GreatTryingWantDamnRightHim
I think that in an Internet age, content is content. As long as you can stand up on the merits of what you're doing right at that moment and aren't just relying on your success in doing something else, it's all good; people will respect you.
Riz Ahmed
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My husband is not in the slightest bit domesticated, but as the years go, by he's getting better. He can make an excellent omelette.
Mary Berry
HusbandBetterGetting BetterGoHe
Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
Mick Jagger
HopeAnarchyOnlySlight
Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in a way that feels real to them, and some situations, the only response you could possibly have is to respond in a way that's so extreme that people are going to laugh.
Jason Robert Brown
PeopleThinkLaughComedyYouDrama
When I was at school, you had to choose; there was a lot of pressure to assimilate. You were an Aussie, or you were one of 'the wogs' - which was everybody else. But I didn't want to be in either group, so I felt like an odd one out.
Jonathan LaPaglia
SchoolPressureYouChooseGroup
I had to think long and hard about what it would imply, what it would mean. Would it mean any alterations of one's lifestyle? Or, more than that, the way that people regarded you? The way they reacted to you if you had a Sir in front of your name?
Derek Jacobi
PeopleThinkNameLongYouWay
Beating the tea party gang is more important than who does the beating.
Arlen Specter
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