In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done; but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. ~Lee Hall
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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A dimple on the chin, the devil within. ~Gaelic Proverb
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This arena is a special place. Everybody loves it. To be able to stand behind the bench and be a part of a great tournament for the '96 Elite is fun. The kids, having a chance to play in the building where the Penguins play, it's a special feeling for them. ~Mario Lemieux
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ~John Locke
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Democracy is the best chance for the best people. ~Robert Frost
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Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
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I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. ~Virginia Postrel
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion. ~Germaine Greer
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth. (Vino Veritas) ~Pliny the Elder
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In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled. ~John Burroughs
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. ~Dag Hammarskjold
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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He who hears music feels his solitude. ~French Proverb
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A friend's eye is a good mirror. ~Irish Proverb
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You seek problems because you need their gifts. ~Richard Bach
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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If you have someone in your life that you are grateful for, someone to whom you want to write another heartfelt, slanted, misspelled thank you note, do it. Tell them they made you feel loved and supported. That they made you feel like you belonged somewhere and that you were not a freak. Tell them all of that. Tell them today. ~Lisa Jakub
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As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years; the longest in the world. ~Robert Jarvik
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it. ~Richard Dawkins
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If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting. ~Fritz Scholder
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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