#partly

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

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That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#fiction #hub #keep #marry #partly

I live my life on self-belief and I live it partly on going with the flow. ↗

— Melanie Brown

#going #going with the flow #i #life #live

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be. ↗

— Robert Browning

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To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#marriage #me #partly #religious #thing

But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

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Women were quite terrifying until I was older. I think that's partly down to confidence. ↗

— Jimmy Carr

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Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them. ↗

— Ron Chernow

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I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy. ↗

— Lee Child

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I think the success of 'Downton' is partly because there are effectively 18 leading characters, all given equal importance, so it's enormously involving on many levels. But also, it's a new story. It's not like Dickens or Austen, where everyone knows the denouement. ↗

— Michelle Dockery

#austen #because #characters #dickens #effectively