Marion Milner Quotes
Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.
Marion Milner
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
Aaron Eckhart
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
Carlos Ghosn
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
F. H. Bradley
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The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
Vikram Seth
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
Jack Nicholson
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If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, and I don't write it down, then I could be at lunch with you, and it's like there's a pile of laundry in my brain that I haven't put away, and I struggle to really listen, so that's always been important to me.
Tavi Gevinson
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I write music just for me. I'm certainly not good enough to do it on any kind of a level but I enjoy that time because it's quiet.
Alex O'Loughlin
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Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.
Daniel Boone
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Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops
H. L. Mencken
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
William Golding
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Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.
Marion Milner