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  • Buchi Emecheta I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • Agnetha Faltskog I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.
    Agnetha Faltskog
    Swedish singer, songwriter and actress (1950 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Dorothy Parker I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. ''Out there,'' I called it.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Anne Tyler I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I definitely managed to do different kinds of things. My focus is usually who the director is, because at the end of the day the director is the storyteller, what the movie is all about. I don't want to participate in something that I don't think is constructive storytelling.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • David Livingstone I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.
    David Livingstone
    Scottish explorer, Christian Congregationalist and missionary (1813 - 1873)
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  • Phillips Brooks I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Steffi Graf I don't ever look back. I look forward.
    Steffi Graf
    German tennis player (1969 - )
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  • Bubba Smith I don't go to clubs and stuff like that, so I don't have to put up with it in there. And normally, because obviously I could hurt somebody, and if I look at it that way, I have to back off.
    Bubba Smith
    American professional football player (1945 - )
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  • Tupac Shakur I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
    Tupac Shakur
    American rapper and actor (1971 - 1996)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Diane Ackerman I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
    Diane Ackerman
    American poet, essayist, savage and naturalist (1948 - )
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  • Margaret Halsey I doused the fatal instrument with lightning promptitude, but it was a good seven minutes before the last indignant handkerchief had folded its wings and gone back to its reticule and the last manufactured cough died protestingly away.
    Margaret Halsey
    American writer
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  • Toni Morrison I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Bill Clinton I end tonight where it all began for me: I still believe in a place called Hope.
    A Place Called Hope (July 16, 1992)
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Burt Young I enjoyed playing around with that guy, and it was a pleasure every three, four years, coming back seeing how the wardrobe is. Is he heavy? Is he thin? I had fun.
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  • Bernie Parent I feel bad about the whole thing but all good things must come to an end sometime. I've got many pleasant memories, especially those two Stanley Cups.
    Quoted in Kevin Shea, One on One with Bernie Parent, Legends of Hockey.net
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