"And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take."

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Source : Dolley Madison (1886). “Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States”, Boston ; New York, Houghton, Mifflin

Dolley Madison

#Army Quotes #Sister In Law Quotes #House Quotes

“I quit painting very early. I just jumped ship. In a way, the window is the tragic possibility - you can jump out into your future. That kind of action is more like a direction. It's that same thinking that brought me to New York.”
“Dogs are how people would be if the important stuff is all that mattered to us.”
“I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.”
“The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors.”
“My daughter's tricycle said "Some Assembly Required." It came in a jar.”
“The strange part of MMA is that you lose one or two fights and people start to question you but he was on top for so long and it was purely his striking that made him so good. Nobody can step backwards and knock someone out as well as Chuck Liddell can.”
“In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It's just different.”
“I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.”

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