Wendy Davis Quotes

I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.

Wendy Davis

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We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound.

John Oliver

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'Dead peasants insurance' is a term that sounds as if it comes straight out of Monty Python. If only that were true.

John Lanchester

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To me, the tragedy about this whole image-obsessed society is that young girls get so caught up in just achieving that they forget to realize that they have so much more to offer the world.

America Ferrera

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I think a writer is a describer. She describes society and human nature as she sees it. She has to be both typical of that society and alone within it.

Amity Gaige

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Donald Trump is anathema to America.

Tom Perez

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The original Alexandre Dumas was born in 1762, the son of 'Antoine Alexandre de l'Isle,' in the French sugar colony of Saint-Domingue. Antoine was a nobleman in hiding from his family and from the law, and he fathered the boy with a black slave.

Tom Reiss

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Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.

Roger Ebert

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As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors - the Soviets and, before them, the British.

Mohammed Omar

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Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or rotted or something, and sometimes it's a whole community.

Joyce Carol Oates

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I would love to continue working behind the scenes in music - to produce and manage up-and-coming musical talent would be a dream!

Connor Franta

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So, okay, I'm not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses.

Bonnie Bassler

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Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you say you can see it in the roles I play, because I think that's important, even if I do play intense characters, like especially Christine Cagney.

Sharon Gless

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