"How did you ever happen to remember that I might be hungry? But of course you would. Will you mind very much if I run myself into serious difficulties now and again after we are married, just for the pleasure of seeing you rise to the occasion?"

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Source : Elizabeth Marie Pope (2001). “The Sherwood Ring”, p.208, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Elizabeth Marie Pope

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“That's not to say I came from the streets or anything - most of the time I was on my grandmother's back porch. I was kept in a constant state of amniotic fluid.”
“I've been acting since second grade, telling stories, making my parents laugh here and there, so I'm hoping my 'thing' is acting. But I also make a really good bread pudding.”

Source : "Talking About Singing with Anna Camp". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. October 3, 2012.
“Fame is what you have taken, / Character's what you give; / When to this truth you waken, / Then you begin to live.”
“So let me tell you this, when it comes to...trying to introduce other people to Jesus. Don't get mad at them: it's not because they're stupid. It's because they're blind. Yelling louder, arguing harder, pushing firmer won't make someone who is blind see. Pray for them, speak to them, care for them.”
“Without security, civilization is cramped and dwarfed. Without security, there can be no freedom. Nor shall I say too much, when I declare that security, guarded of course by its offspring, freedom, is the true end and aim of government.”

Source : Charles Sumner (1856). “Last Three Speeches on Kansas Ad Freedom: Feb. 7th, March 6th, and May 19th & 20th, 1856”, p.619
“Some people can carry a tune, but they seem to stagger under the load.”
“When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“And now -- now it only remains for me to light a cigarette and go home. Dear God, only now am I remembering that people die. Does that include me? Don't forget, in the meantime, that this is the season for strawberries. Yes.”

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