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"What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?"
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"He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices."
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"America is the most fertile ground of opportunity."
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"Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country."
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"We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces."
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"My first occupation was to map the country."
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"Jaws was still a handsome, big guy. He got the girl. He was my favorite villain. I tried to make this guy endearing somewhat because all he wanted to do was unite his country."
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"The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier."
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"In the world over, the very name of our country is immediately associated with the Parthenon."
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"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."
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"The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?""
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"But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning."
Enjoyment
"I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains."
Father
"But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!"
Life
"But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for."
Learning
"The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure."
Success
"No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes."
Family
"What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?"
Country
"Everyone needs some time to themselves."
Time
"Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do."
People
"Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not."
Loneliness
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