Katherine Mansfield Quotes
What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.
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Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
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If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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I didn't start exercising until the end of my modeling career. When you're young, you eat and drink what you want and stay up all night and still look good.
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Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
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The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
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You have to follow that next step.
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There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.
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KWMR is my radio station, and I intend to have a job there as I get older. That's what I'm lobbying for. They don't need me. They've got plenty of people. But let's see if I can make myself indispensable.
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An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
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I know many sports fans that don't enjoy soccer. The argument is that there's no action, not enough of it.
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We know that if religion is allowed into schools, pupils will sometimes begin to question the teaching they receive.
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I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of the bottom. And I climbed the stairs, one by one.
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I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.
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When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.
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Is 'Garden State' the next 'Citizen Kane'? Of course not. I'd like to think we aimed a little higher than that, frankly.
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What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.
