Katherine Anne Porter Quotes
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I think country needs to have a sporting culture. I think if sports were taken as curriculum in school and are encouraged in right way like government of Maharashtra and Haryana have done given Marks for Sports and encouraging them with good jobs.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'
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There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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You'll see a lot more blood in 'Saw' movies or something like that than you will in either of the 'Last House' movies. I kind of think it owes more to 'The Virgin Spring' which is the original source material, the Bergman movie.
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There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
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I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.
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I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.
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My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.
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I like to come home and completely forget about work.
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If Rihanna stripped it all down morally rather than with her clothes, perhaps we'd get closer to Nina Simone. She's talented, but all we want is to sing the truth. If Britney Spears was to sing closer to her heart, she might have been the new Bobby Gentry or Dolly Parton.
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Any experience of a girl picking out her wedding dress is amazing, but I have to say it was really special to work with David's dad, to see him in action with his team.
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Christians need never be sick, any more than they need to be sinful. It is always God's desire to heal you.
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It is such a relief to be told the truth.
