Katherine Mansfield Quotes
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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We will not import crime, terrorism, homophobia, and a brand of anti-Semitism that sets synagogues ablaze.
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I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place following economic prospects and jobs and looking for new opportunities, so we changed schools, colleges, grade schools, high schools every 6 months to a year - depending on the breaks.
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Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.
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If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don't get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.
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What is important for a central banker is that you have to convey that you know what you are doing.
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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.
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I've heard people have written books of me. People don't even know me, but they've written a book on me. You ever heard of hearing it from the horse's mouth? I'm the horse.
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I always sang in school choirs and went on tours to other countries. I have always loved it. It's a very communal thing, and you really connect with people.
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I'm not a walking fleet of vanity vans any more than I'm a walking, talking multi-star cast. I might want an entourage, but so far, it is entirely eluding me.
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When the mind maintains awareness, yet does not mingle with the senses, nor the senses with sense impressions, then self-awareness blossoms.
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If you still have to ask, shame on you
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The listeners who buy books after a reading multiply that reading; the author who realizes that he or she may be writing on a blank page but is at least not speaking to a blank wall may be encouraged by the experience, and write more.
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African American women, and moms in particular, are evicted at disproportionately high rates.
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I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're probably already disregarding a certain material life you could have.
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Nothing we do in this great capital can change the fact that factories or information can flash across the world, that people can move money around in the blink of an eye... Nothing can change the fact that technology can be adopted, once created, by people all across the world and then rapidly adapted in new and different ways by people who have a little different take on the way that technology works.
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There's hostility to lying, and there should be.
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There are a lot of people who do a lot of things to be outrageous with fashion, hair or makeup.
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It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.
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In real life, people are integrated into society. That's what happens in my books as well. Minor characters don't just walk in and spout lines, they interact and have an effect on the events. It's not an isolated universe.
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I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
