"And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer."
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"Showing your life so public is a mistake sometimes, but I blame myself as much as anyone else."
"Sometimes the story takes you to places that you want to go and sometimes it takes you places you don't want to go."
"Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things and there is no rhyme or reason."
"I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn't work out and other times it works out much better than you thought."
"The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches."
"There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. Other pleasures fail us or wound us while they charm, but the pen we take up rejoicing and lay down with satisfaction, for it has the power to advantage not only its lord and master, but many others as well, even though they be far away - sometimes, indeed, though they be not born for thousands of years to come."
"I love 5.1. Sometimes you can't squeeze everything in comfortably into a stereo picture. There is a lot more space in a 5.1 environment."
"My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears."
"Sometimes the reason we do not see the answer is that we are looking too closely at the question."
"sometimes to find truth one must move mountains -Kohler"
"Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . ."
"Sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby Jesus didn't."
"I believe in sometimes getting mad and always getting even."
"Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium."
"An executive is one who makes an immediate decision and is sometimes right"
"Sometimes you have this tragedy which turns into an incredible opportunity."
"In my town we studied the five Books of Moses, but rarely the prophets. We studied the Talmud so much that I sometimes knew the prophets because of the prophetic quotations in the Talmud. We almost never studied the prophets themselves."
"Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?"
"I see a lot of women who can't travel when they're young, and then their kids grow up and they become amazing adventurers. Travel is not only for the young. Sometimes it's wasted on the young."