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At any given time I'm listening to the Cory Branan, Leonna Naess, Eve 6, the King's Noyse, Sean Paul, Green Day, the BoDeans, Buddy Holly, Nowell Sing We Clear... the list goes on and on. But I rarely listen to music while I write. I start typing the lyrics.


Sarah Addison Allen

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QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person.
ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive.
ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ...
ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken.
ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real...
ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha...
ZARA PHILLIPS In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don...
ZARA PHILLIPS I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.
ZARA PHILLIPS Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
KING JAMES I My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them...
MARIE ANTOINETTE I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina...
WALLIS SIMPSON PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea...
WALLIS SIMPSON I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w...
WALLIS SIMPSON I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
WALLIS SIMPSON I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
WALLIS SIMPSON A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compe...
WALLIS SIMPSON Never explain, never complain.
WALLIS SIMPSON You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.
WALLIS SIMPSON I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
WALLIS SIMPSON For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
WALLIS SIMPSON Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.
WALLIS SIMPSON You can never be too rich or too thin.
WALLIS SIMPSON It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most...
FREDERICK THE GREAT Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All...
KATE MIDDLETON There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
MARIE ANTOINETTE I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.
MARIE ANTOINETTE I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
QUEEN VICTORIA I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.
KING JAMES I I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
CHARLES V I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
KATE MIDDLETON It would be doing me great injustice to think that I have any feeling of indifference to my country;...
MARIE ANTOINETTE I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
AUGUSTUS A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
FREDERICK THE GREAT Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
QUEEN CHRISTINA There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
PRINCE CHARLES We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.
PRINCESS DIANA What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
PRINCESS DIANA The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult period...
PRINCESS DIANA People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is bett...
PRINCESS DIANA I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just wa...
PRINCESS DIANA There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.
PRINCESS DIANA I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feel...
PRINCESS DIANA Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves...
PRINCESS DIANA The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.
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There was only so much she could control.

But that ...
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SARAH ADDISON ALLEN When someone needs help, you help. Right?
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SARAH ADDISON ALLEN She knew what it felt like to stand in front of someone and ask them to love you, to try to pull the...
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JOSEPH ADDISON Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.
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JOSEPH ADDISON 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius,-- We'll deserve it.
JOSEPH ADDISON It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game ever starts.
ADDISON WALKER Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!
JOSEPH ADDISON Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country.
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JOSEPH ADDISON My voice is still for war.
JOSEPH ADDISON Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright...
JOSEPH ADDISON Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; Old age is slow in both.
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ADDISON PHILLIPS Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit.
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ADDISON MIZNER Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it
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ADDISON MIZNER Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate
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ADDISON ARMSTRONG That was a shocking gasoline build.
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JOSEPH ADDISON There in no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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JOSEPH ADDISON Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and somet...
JOSEPH ADDISON The friendships of the world are oft Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure; Ours has s...
JOSEPH ADDISON Great souls by instinct to each other turn, Demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
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ADDISON MOORE Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
JOSEPH ADDISON Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
ADDISON MIZNER The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.
ADDISON MIZNER Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
JOSEPH ADDISON Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily diss...
JOSEPH ADDISON The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
JOSEPH ADDISON The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment,...
JOSEPH ADDISON Poets are born, not paid.
ADDISON MIZNER A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves a constant ease and sereni...
JOSEPH ADDISON Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment...
JOSEPH ADDISON A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants...
JOSEPH ADDISON To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
JOSEPH ADDISON Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath...
JOSEPH ADDISON Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most se...
JOSEPH ADDISON Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of...
JOSEPH ADDISON Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of ma...
JOSEPH ADDISON A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own s...
JOSEPH ADDISON To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusemen...
JOSEPH ADDISON The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will rende...
JOSEPH ADDISON Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.
JOSEPH ADDISON What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
JOSEPH ADDISON Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are oft...
JOSEPH ADDISON Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
JOSEPH ADDISON 'Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.
JOSEPH ADDISON Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more livel...
JOSEPH ADDISON A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recen...
JOSEPH ADDISON As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.
JOSEPH ADDISON