Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
Damien Chazelle -
I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I'm an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.
Padmasree Warrior -
Doing the sword fighting is like picking up a dance routine... I think dancing really helps with the picking up of it.
Maisie Williams -
I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.
Naveen Andrews -
In Japan, I am famous in certain special circles - mainly as someone who is trying to break down and enlighten the conventions of Japanese art.
Takashi Murakami -
Perhaps cliche is nothing more than the weight of the past pinning down your mind. In this sense, imaginative freedom is a way of finding the future, though it isn't so easy to do.
Damon Galgut
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A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
O. Henry -
Take the job that you would take if you were independently wealthy.
Warren Buffett -
Zur Verknechtung der Sprache im Geschwätz tritt die Verknechtung der Dinge in der Narretei fast als deren unausbleibliche Folge.
Walter Benjamin -
The boy had to pay the piper, so they all stay in fear of the neighborhood sniper
Eric Lynn Wright -
Tell me, my soul, can this be death?
Alexander Pope -
Crowley wanted to be a magician because he wanted power - power over other people.
Colin Wilson
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The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.
Derek Magyar -
Eighty percent of the cases used in the typical MBA program are about successful companies. Students graduate with this notion that 'If I do everything that the people in those cases did, then my organization will grow and be successful, too.'
Clayton Christensen -
I am a deeply spiritual and religious person both privately and publicly.
Lynsi Torres -
I think that more and more there's a sense that the best performances I can give are the ones that are the truest to who I am. The further I move away from who I am, the worse they are.
Jake Gyllenhaal -
'Dexter' has been very, very good to me. I would rather stop doing it than cheapen it.
Jeff Lindsay
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I think that by following the route that I have tried to outline, one gets into a much more interesting and productive series of questions than those that result from saying simply that Chinese don't like milk because they don't like milk.
Marvin Harris -
Visiting someone in a hospital recently, I watched an elderly couple. The man was in a wheelchair, the wife sitting next to him in the visitors' room. For the half-hour that I watched they never exchanged a word, just held hands and looked at each other, and once or twice the man patted his wife's face. The feeling of love was so thick in that room that I felt I was sharing in their communion and was shaken all day by their pain, their love, something sad and also joyful: the fullness of a human relationship.
Eda LeShan -
I am not the worst singer.
William Hung -
I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.
Keeley Hawes -
While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.
Daniel Goleman -
No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
Mary Wortley Montagu