Quotes with often-told

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  • Carol Lynley It was strange being an adolescent fantasy for other people. I was so cut off from the real world. I went straight into the movies as a teenybopper, and had a very protracted adolescence myself. I was divorced when I was 20, but I was an adolescent until I was 26. Then I was in Europe, living with this fellow and he kind of helped me out. Told me some things about myself.
    Interview by Roger Ebert, December 4, 1972
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  • William Somerset Maugham It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Blair Underwood It's a music video but she was real specific on the character that Mary J. Blige was playing, and that I was playing in this video and I told her whenever you get to jump to the big screen I'd love to come with you and she honored that.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Beau Willimon It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Arthur Herzog It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say.
    Arthur Herzog
    American novelist, non-fiction writer, and journalist (1927 - 2010)
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  • Ann Beattie It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Judith Viorst It's true love because if he said quit drinking martinis but I kept on drinking them and the next morning I couldn't get out of bed, he wouldn't tell me he told me.
    Judith Viorst
    American writer and journalist (1931 - )
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  • Bob Ainsworth It's true that people were told facial hair was not appreciated by the British public, but I just decided to keep the moustache.
    Bob Ainsworth
    British Labour Party politician (1952 - )
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  • Campbell Brown It's understood in the newsroom: Air the Trump rallies live and uninterrupted. He may say something crazy; he often does, and it's always great television.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard It's, like, sort of a dream thing for an actor when they're told to gain weight.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bill Engvall Jay Leno told me once, 'Don't do jokes about things you don't know about.'
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Bernard Cornwell Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. government wouldn't give me a Green Card, so I airily told her I'd write a book.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • Beth Ditto Just like my straight friends, I am repeatedly asked when I plan to have kids, and have been told many times, by various branches of my bloodline, that 'even lesbians can have babies these days.'
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Bruce Willis Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Brian P. Cleary Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it.
    Brian P. Cleary
    American humorist and poet (1959 - )
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  • George Allen Knute Rockne liked bad loser. He said good losers lose too often.
    George Allen
    American senator and politician (1952 - )
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  • Caroline Leavitt L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.
    Caroline Leavitt
    American novelist
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  • Ansel Adams Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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