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Jane Sherwood Ace: Home wasn't built...

Jane Sherwood Ace: Home wasn't built...

Home wasn't built in a day.

Source: Easy Aces Radio Show, 1928-1945; in The Fine...

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Helen Gahagan Douglas: Character isn't inherited....

Helen Gahagan Douglas: Character isn't inherited....

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by...

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Gwendolyn Brooks: A writer should...

Gwendolyn Brooks: A writer should...

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of...

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Amy Lowell: All books are...

Amy Lowell: All books are...

All books are either dreams or swords,
You can cut, or you can drug, with words.


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Whitney Houston: I was aware...

Whitney Houston: I was aware...

I was aware of people staring at me. No one moved. They seemed almost in trance. I just stared at the clock in the...

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Billie Holiday: If you think...

Billie Holiday: If you think...

If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case...

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Lena Horne: Always be smarter...

Lena Horne: Always be smarter...

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

Source: Interview - 1985.
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Mary Antin: It is only...

Mary Antin: It is only...

It is only that my illusion is more real to me than reality. And so do we often build our world on an error, and cry...

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Rachel Donaldson Jackson: I would rather...

Rachel Donaldson Jackson: I would rather...

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than live in that palace at Washington.

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Hedda Hopper: Nobody's interested in...

Hedda Hopper: Nobody's interested in...

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

Source: In The Last Word - A Treasury...

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Maya Ying Lin: Architecture is like...

Maya Ying Lin: Architecture is like...

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we...

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Emily Carr: You come into...

Emily Carr: You come into...

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone, yet it seems to me you are more alone while living...

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Gloria Vanderbilt: And it came...

Gloria Vanderbilt: And it came...

And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong -- to belong to my...

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Berenice Abbott: Photography helps people...

Berenice Abbott: Photography helps people...

Photography helps people to see.

Source: In Berenice Abbott: An American Matter,...

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Joyce A Myers: A BMW can't...

Joyce A Myers: A BMW can't...

A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Elizabeth Arden: Nothing that costs...

Elizabeth Arden: Nothing that costs...

Nothing that costs only a dollar is worth having.

Source: In In Cosmetics the Old...

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Faith Popcorn: The trouble with...

Faith Popcorn: The trouble with...

The trouble with corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), travel the...

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Marilyn Horne: Whenever you think...

Marilyn Horne: Whenever you think...

Whenever you think that you are getting too big for the people around you, remember all that separates you from the...

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Ruth Draper: Aren't the artists...

Ruth Draper: Aren't the artists...

Aren't the artists brave to go out and paint a sea as rough as that? . . . I don't see how he kept his canvas...

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Glenda Jackson: Acting is not...

Glenda Jackson: Acting is not...

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget...

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