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Fannie Hurst: Any writer worth...

Fannie Hurst: Any writer worth...

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another...

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Tina Turner: I never said...

Tina Turner: I never said...

I never said Well, I don't have this and I don't have that. I said, I don't have this yet, but I'm going to get...

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Lena Horne: It's not the...

Lena Horne: It's not the...

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

Source: In The...

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Oprah Winfrey: Think like a...

Oprah Winfrey: Think like a...

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to...

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Susan Sarandon: Do you really...

Susan Sarandon: Do you really...

Do you really have to be the ice queen intellectual or the slut whore? Isn't there some way to be...

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Ella Fitzgerald: The only thing...

Ella Fitzgerald: The only thing...

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

Source: In New York Sunday...

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Judith Jamison: Dance is about...

Judith Jamison: Dance is about...

Dance is about never-ending aspiration.

Source: Dancing Spirit, 1993.
-- Judith...

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Maria Callas: When my enemies...

Maria Callas: When my enemies...

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

Source: In Maria Callas,...

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Mary Pickford: Supposing you have...

Mary Pickford: Supposing you have...

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing...

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Elizabeth Taylor: I feel very...

Elizabeth Taylor: I feel very...

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind...

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Vera-Ellen: Getting involved is...

Vera-Ellen: Getting involved is...

Getting involved is so, so . . . involving.

Source: As Ivy Smith ('Miss...

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George Eliot: Our impartiality is...

George Eliot: Our impartiality is...

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

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Mary McCarthy: In science, all...

Mary McCarthy: In science, all...

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

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Lillian Smith: Faith and doubt...

Lillian Smith: Faith and doubt...

Faith and doubt both are needed -- not as antagonists, but working side by side -- to take us around the unknown...

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Rose Tremain: The Imagination conjures...

Rose Tremain: The Imagination conjures...

The Imagination conjures gifts; what the ungrateful, unsentimental part of the mind has to do is to unwrap them, find...

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Anna Sewell: Master said, God...

Anna Sewell: Master said, God...

Master said, God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves; but He gave animals...

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Mary Stewart: I reached for...

Mary Stewart: I reached for...

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful...

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Dorothy Miller Richardson: If there was...

Dorothy Miller Richardson: If there was...

If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.

Source: Pilgrimage, Vol. 11, Ch....

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Susan Warner: . . ....

Susan Warner: . . ....

. . . and many a good time we went back again, long afterward, and broke our rejected lump with great exultation to...

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Eleanor H Porter: Oh, yes, the...

Eleanor H Porter: Oh, yes, the...

Oh, yes, the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about -- not matter what twas, rejoined...

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