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But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.

Edmond About

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: February 14, 1828 - January 16, 1885

Topics

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I was small growing up, and to make matters worse, I wore glasses, and my mother dressed me in attention-getting outfits. I was a target of bullies.

Joel Grey

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I accept any challenge.

Jennifer Hudson

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I weighed 245 pounds when I was 16 years old. I had a 44-inch waist. And that was two years before 'Dukes of Hazzard' started.

John Schneider

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My family kept its history to itself. On the plus side, I didn't have to hear nightmarish stories about the Holocaust, the pogroms, terrible illnesses, painful deaths. My elderly parents never even spoke about their ailments.

Amy Bloom

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I'm just going to do everything my coaches ask me.

Stefon Diggs

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On one hand, the idea of sending pictures off into the vastness of space and time seems nonsensical. On the other, I felt like the gesture carried an enormous amount of responsibility.

Trevor Paglen

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The regrets I have are strong enough that I wouldn't share 'em. I think that you can't live without suffering some.

Ron Howard

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Songs like 'Learn To Love Again' and 'Rochester' and some of the more gut-wrenching ones deal with the pain of the younger times of your life... trying to make sense of some the stuff we probably all went through.

Mat Kearney

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I am not walking around looking like Luke Cage does at all.

Mike Colter

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I go for cosmopolitan cities, and I like to be in the middle of everything.

Michael Urie

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They said VCRs would kill the movies; it didn't.

Michael Moore

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I have friends who don't even know I'm diabetic. I don't hide it, but it's the last thing I need to tell someone. I take my insulin with every meal and have kidney drugs twice a day, but that is, like, habit. That's how I deal with it.

Lucy Davis

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