She was very good as a freshman, and then the latter part of her career her golf took a turn for the worse. But she told me that when she graduated that she wouldn't have changed a thing because it helped her develop into the person that she was.
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DON HOWARD She was very smart, a really sharp kid -- she could have done anything she put her mind to. We calle... CONNIE KYRIACOU I remember when it happened she didn't know where her father or her aunts or her grandmother was and... JANICE WILLIAMS There was a little girl Who had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead. Wh... KRISTEN MCKEE And when she started becoming a “young lady,” and no one was allowed to look at her because she ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY She was a beautiful person. She was always doing things for people. I called her the rescue ranger. ... AUTRAULIA HARRIS Alicia is always the one who takes charge now. She wasn't that way when she came here s a freshman, ... GWEN LEWIS She was Anna and that was it. There was not a vain bone in her body. She dressed simply, but always ... HELEN LINHART She said when she graduated from high school, no one came to support her. It was a very touching let... AUDREY BACHYNSKI She was disoriented. She was out and had to be helped to her corner, despite the fact that she was s... MAUREEN SHEA That night, she told me how much she was tired of hurting her mom and her dad. I still remember her ... CINDY GARCIA In the teahouses one could hear the most absurd stories, such as how a in a certain place a huge spi... LAO SHE During my childhood I didn't need to hear stories about evil ogres eating children and so forth; the... LAO SHE She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her so... JOHN GREEN I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that s... RODNEY DANGERFIELD She shrunk into herself and waited for me to stare at her like she was gross an dirty. But I just wa... KRISTA RITCHIE I had asked her about it when she was here. She [said], 'Oh, I don't know,' and I said, 'Well, keep ... CHANITA OLDS She's a very smart person. She knows her limitations as an individual, and she knows her role on the... HEATHER STEPHENS She was a very unhappy person most of her life. She went to hospitals all the time. All kinds of hos... STEPHEN CHBOSKY She was incredibly responsible in the workplace, [but] she was incredibly socially immature. Greg [S... LINDA WOJAS My mother had heard the story of Hannah and Samuel, so she prayed that if God would give her a son, ... STANLEY HAUERWAS She knows she's good, but she knows she's a freshman. She knows her role. No one feels intimidated o... MADDIE HUMPHREY She wasn't crying, she didn't even sound frightened. She told me her plane was hijacked and that the... TED OLSON She raised one hand and flexed its fingers and wondered, as she had sometimes before, how this thing... IAN MCEWAN I just thought about the impact she was making on me. Then, it took more of a global perspective. To... KRISTINA MATARAZZO She bought a poster of the Beatles and tacked it on the wall above her bed. 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SCOTT FITZGERALD I would hope that she sets it in the next game and gets it out of the way. Meg Rice was her mentor. ... BARRY BLAUVELT She was an ugly little duckling — she wasn't ugly but she was a little duckling with terrible cost... FRANK CARROLL She was an ugly little duckling she wasn't ugly but she was a little duckling with terrible costu... FRANK CARROLL K.B. she just took over. She put her heart and soul into it. She never came out of the game, and ... MARC HIGDON there were moments throughout the whole day when she had to shake herself because she found her thou... SAMANTHA YOUNG There are some good teachers out there, but the only one who is a genius at diagnosing my swing is m... BOO WEEKLEY I just took her heart away from her right away. I was doing the feints, trying to get her out of her... JAIME CLAMPITT Francesca was a strong believer in fate. She assumed he picked up the habit from her therapist who w... COURTNEY CAROLA She was basically resting. She would come in and out of her rest, open her eyes, look around and go ... BERNICE KING I heard her shout that she was good for 16. I told Simone I was going to hold her to it. She said, '... BETH YOUNG A nod at Beatrice who held absolutely still. "She said she would come with me. She insisted on it. S... METTE IVIE HARRISON The thing about Tip is her temperament is perfect for golf. She gets upset but doesn't let it bother... ANDY HALLETT [But she was closer to her mother.] I adored my mother. She was very formal and proper, but she was ... JOAN RIVERS We didn't get into it, other than she was concerned about Rick and she felt that it was a tough situ... WAYNE GRETZKY I don't know what she was thinking. She is just a young girl, and she must have panicked. I heard he... ANTHONY FARRISI She remembers rehearsals. Wrong notes turning to right ones, dissonance becoming harmony. She re... KATHRYN HOLMES I was very excited for Melissa Fuller. She's been working really hard. I haven't put her in the 100 ... JULIE WILLIS She tried to tear herself away from him. The effort broke against his arms that had not felt it. Her... AYN RAND As some people turned to religion for comfort, so, Highsmith wrote in her notebook in September 1970... ANDREW WILSON She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymo... ALICE SEBOLD Sissy had two great failings. She was a great lover and a great mother. She had so much of tendernes... BETTY SMITH (Morgan) helped me with my math homework. I also asked her some things about golf. She said she was ... DANIELLE JACKSON She was very cautious about locking her door and not letting people into her home that she didn't kn... DONNA MAY All her friends told her she is crazy, that she should sell it on eBay. But she said that giving it ... GLORIA SWIFT She took so much pressure off us as freshman and sophomores. She was really the focus of the offense... 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PHILLIPS BROOKS Freedom is thrust upon us, and we must take it whether we will or not. Happiest is he who takes it m... PHILLIPS BROOKS Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 Orthodoxy is, i... PHILLIPS BROOKS Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552 What is the Christian? ... PHILLIPS BROOKS To say, "well done" to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort... PHILLIPS BROOKS Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like... PHILLIPS BROOKS Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 If the true rev... PHILLIPS BROOKS The tests that we have done have not substantiated these claims. ALLAN BROOKS I try to come every year, to support the fire department. This is a lot better than McDonald's, and ... 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THOMAS BROOKS I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work. BROOKS ATKINSON If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also. GARTH BROOKS The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but t... BROOKS ATKINSON I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back. PHILLIPS BROOKS Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first. BROOKS ATKINSON A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward. PHILLIPS BROOKS A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words. PHILLIPS BROOKS Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broad... PHILLIPS BROOKS As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes. MEL BROOKS No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the peopl... PHILLIPS BROOKS No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and wit... PHILLIPS BROOKS Let MEL BROOKS No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which... PHILLIPS BROOKS I just wake up and say, You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today. GARTH BROOKS Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity. PHILLIPS BROOKS It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vit... BROOKS ATKINSON You know a dream is like a river, ever changing as it flows. And a dreamer's just a vessel that m... GARTH BROOKS Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and ... BROOKS ATKINSON Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and pr... PHILLIPS BROOKS The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself. GARTH BROOKS The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all respons... BROOKS ATKINSON Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your a... MEL BROOKS Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool. BELLAMY BROOKS Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on t... LOUISE BROOKS Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on t... LOUISE BROOKS Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. PHILLIPS BROOKS We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be ... PAUL BROOKS Each body has its art... GWENDOLYN BROOKS Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. MEL BROOKS Humor is just another defense against the universe. MEL BROOKS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pra... PHILLIPS BROOKS I guess I was the class clown - with a name like Albert Einstein, you don't hide in the back. I&... ALBERT BROOKS If you make your robot look exactly like Albert Einstein, then the robot better be as smart as Einst... RODNEY BROOKS Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house. THOMAS BROOKS The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out h... PHILLIPS BROOKS We used to have food picked and used to have houses built and we used to have chicken properly proce... MO BROOKS Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me w... 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PHILLIPS BROOKS It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the ... PHILLIPS BROOKS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! PHILLIPS BROOKS Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like ... PHILLIPS BROOKS The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of t... PHILLIPS BROOKS Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurre... PHILLIPS BROOKS The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is th... PHILLIPS BROOKS It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men. PHILLIPS BROOKS Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it. PHILLIPS BROOKS To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made th... PHILLIPS BROOKS Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. PHILLIPS BROOKS Happiness is the natural flower of duty. PHILLIPS BROOKS Just keep taking chances and having fun. GARTH BROOKS In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told peo... RODNEY BROOKS When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that th... GWENDOLYN BROOKS Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other eth... GWENDOLYN BROOKS I've always thought of myself as a reporter. GWENDOLYN BROOKS I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. GWENDOLYN BROOKS Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing wi... GWENDOLYN BROOKS I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, e... GWENDOLYN BROOKS Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. 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SCOTT BROOKS Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But i... MEL BROOKS Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. PHILLIPS BROOKS I guess 'The Player' was a pretty good L.A. movie. And 'Chinatown.' Was there ever a... ALBERT BROOKS It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment! GARTH BROOKS We rode pretty hard for about 30 or 40 kilometers, but eventually it got a bit disorganized. There w... BEN BROOKS It will be a lot funnier. It will have a lot more raw material, as I call it. BEN BROOKS We started to execute more and our team did not have as many turnovers. We just played better as a t... BEN BROOKS The sponsors were even more keen because they wanted to have more of a brand awareness down here. BEN BROOKS The Herald Sun Tour is one of the premier cycling events in Australia, so the boys and I are keen to... BEN BROOKS I was his host for nine Phoenix Opens and would fly him over in a private jet. I always tried to tel... BEN BROOKS