There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese Proverb
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~Edith Sitwell
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. ~Jewish Proverb
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Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do. ~Laurel Clark
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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You are only as old as you feel. ~English Proverb
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I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. ~Lady Randolph Churchill
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I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, "Who's that?" But this got me started in acting. ~James Stewart
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From a director's point of view, if I can create different characters which impress the audience, that is fantastic for me. ~Stephen Chow
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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A little dog can start a hare, but it takes a big one to catch it. ~Irish Proverb
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In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence. ~Gary Ross
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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I didn't go to drama school, so I feel like I did all my growing up on "Hollyoaks." ~Nathalie Emmanuel
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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ~Samuel P. Huntington
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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian Proverb
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A fool and his money are easily parted. ~Irish Proverb
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