A kind of cross between Helen Traubel and Martha Raye an uncanny amalgam of Joan Sutherland and Phyllis Diller.


James McCourt

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I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
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Hodor," said Hodor.
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You do what you love, what you need
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I turned.
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She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
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You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
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I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
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I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
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I must confess I will miss your... proximity when jumping together.'
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I'm only trying to pull my own weight. I don't want to be a liability.'
She reached out, smili...
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I think I should learn to jump on my own soon, don't you?'
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You know nothing, Jon Snow.
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I would no...
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I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?"

There was nothing but uncompromising w...
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There you are. I've been looking for you.

His first words to me— not a lie at a...
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I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door.
And I was not a mouse.
I ...
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No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared.
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He drained his glass. "I made a mistake."
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I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ...
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Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers.
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Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?"
"Ah. The Suriel to...
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There's a wealth of information on James Dean, and everybody has an opinion on him. James Dean m...
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I'm an amalgam of the 19th-century romantics and the beat poets.
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History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
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I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly moth...
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The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a pro...
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From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can ...
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Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
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The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and ...
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Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, on...
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Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressi...
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The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not d...
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When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law e...
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You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day t...
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The future starts today, not tomorrow.
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The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels ...
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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to re...
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Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.
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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, ther...
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There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you...
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I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime...
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Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.
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To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
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Males are horrible creatures, aren’t they?
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When you spend so long trapped in darkness, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.
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Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good.
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I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes close...
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The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life
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Hay que aprender a pasar la vida balanceando el peso que cargamos y nuestros sentimientos.
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Cuando tocas fondo, pierdes el miedo...y es fantástico.
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Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not...
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The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.
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I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worth...
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He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presen...
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I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble...
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Scatter my ashes on the Shannon.
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When my trust fund ran out, I panicked. I have a lot of admiration for the kids who come to the big ...
JAMES ST. JAMES
I think that when you are a teenager, it's the smartest you will ever be in your life. Teenagers...
JAMES ST. JAMES
Watch out for the average--they're usually hiding something big.
JAMES ST. JAMES
There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free...
JAMES ST. JAMES
War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.
JAMES BLUNT
National honor is the national property of the highest value.
JAMES MONROE
Every person is created in the image of God and has value. Every person. Every person is to be treat...
JAMES LANKFORD
People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I m...
JAMES MCBRIDE
From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started openi...
KEVIN JAMES
My favorite movie of all time is 'Rocky.'
KEVIN JAMES
Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again.
KEVIN JAMES
I really wasn't a class clown.
KEVIN JAMES
I've always had something in my heart where I root for guys who struggle with women.
KEVIN JAMES
Back in '93 I saw my first UFC fight and just became enamored by it then.
KEVIN JAMES
Once a year my back will go out and it'll be... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the s...
KEVIN JAMES
I try to connect with the everyday, every guy.
KEVIN JAMES
You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.
KEVIN JAMES
It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.
KEVIN JAMES
I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfo...
KEVIN JAMES
I don't want to be known as this goody-two-shoes who can only do comedies where puppies are lick...
KEVIN JAMES
Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.
KEVIN JAMES
I've always been the guy who doesn't necessarily get it with women. A woman would have to sa...
KEVIN JAMES
Now I'm starting to jog. But every time I do jog I have 9-1 pressed into my phone, with the next...
KEVIN JAMES
I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.
KEVIN JAMES
I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.
KEVIN JAMES
A song can take you to a special time in your life.
KEVIN JAMES
If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it's a chubby kid, my mother is always like, '...
KEVIN JAMES
I could never be James Bond.
KEVIN JAMES
I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem.
KEVIN JAMES
You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it&...
JAMES DASHNER
It's pretty scary to know how quickly time flies.
JAMES WAN
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha...
WILLIAM JAMES
Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.
JAMES THOMSON
'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.
JAMES THOMSON
For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by...
JAMES THOMSON
The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no ...
JAMES THOMSON
More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
JAMES THOMSON
But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
JAMES THOMSON
Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
JAMES THOMSON
When I sing for myself, I probably sing for anyone who has any kind of hurt, any kind of bad feeling...
ETTA JAMES
Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a...
JAMES ROUSE
Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you...
JAMES GALWAY
A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
JAMES CALLAGHAN
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
JAMES KELLER
I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.
JAMES CORDEN
You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing,...
LEBRON JAMES
In regards to your love life, you're just entering into a whole of pain if you talk about it. If...
LILY JAMES
If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or v...
LENNIE JAMES
My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
JAMES BROWN