Quotes with make-believe

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  • Will Rogers With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Bradley Whitford With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.
    Bradley Whitford
    American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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  • Bellamy Young With Yale, my world got so big all of a sudden. At school, if you could dream it, someone would make it so that you could do it. It was magical. I had a lot going on, as you do when you're 17, and didn't necessarily capitalize on all of it, but it made me see possibility in a way that I hadn't before.
    Bellamy Young
    American actress and singer (1970 - )
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  • William Cobbett Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.
    William Cobbett
    British journalist (1763 - 1835)
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  • Nancy Astor Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
    Nancy Astor
    First woman Member of Parliament (1879 - 1964)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Barbara Mikulski Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Nellie Mcclung Women who set a low value on themselves make life hard for all women.
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  • Andrea Dworkin Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Joseph Joubert Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Samuel Butler Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • T. Boone Pickens Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
    T. Boone Pickens
    American business magnate and financier (1928 - )
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  • E. M. Forster Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do belive in Art for Art's sake.
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    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Salman Rushdie Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Barry Unsworth Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.
    Barry Unsworth
    English writer (1930 - 2012)
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  • Catherine Drinker Bowen Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
    Catherine Drinker Bowen
    American writer
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  • Elie Wiesel Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Antonin Artaud Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Aldous Huxley Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Brian De Palma Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.
    Brian De Palma
    American film director and screenwriter (1940 - )
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