Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace. - William Cowper

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Graduating high school was really emotional for me. I'd obviously made a huge thing out of what that experience was for me, and saying goodbye to it was very weird. So I had to be like, boom, onward and upward.

William Cowper

Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.

Fall, Falls, Grace, Taken, Wisdom

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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

Innocence, Innocent, Seldom, Uncomfortable

Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.

Degree, Degrees, Judgment, Leaves, Pleasure, Undue

Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow.

Blow, Brow, Fate, Steals, Sunshine, Tread

We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.

Danger, Reality, Secure, Thinking

Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.

Day, Dead, Death, Look, Looks

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I have learned patience, for sure. Pre-publication is a long waiting game, especially for authors of picture books. We write the manuscript, sign the contract, and wait. It takes a while for the art director to find an illustrator and then the illustrator works on the sketches, and depending on those first round of sketches, it could be a few more months before you see a final illustration. I was surprised at how long it takes for all the pieces to come together.

Art, Book, Depending, See, Together, Writing

Karen Marie Moning

Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears. I'd seen many things in his eyes in the time that I'd known him: lust, amusement, sympathy, mockery, caution, fury. But I had never seen this. Hope. Jericho Barrons had hope, and I was the reason for it. I would never forget his smile. It had illuminated him from the inside out.

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Robert Carlyle

In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do TV and vice versa, but that's gone now.

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Nobody else can really begin to sort out for you what to accept and what to reject in terms of what wakes you up and what makes you fall asleep. No one else can really sort out for you what to accept - what opens up your world - and what to reject - what seems to keep you going round and round in some kind of repetitive misery.

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