Marjorie Holmes Quotes
Simply to ask a blessing upon one's circumstances, whatever they are, is somehow to improve them, and to tap some mysterious source of energy and joy.
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I finish, like, one book in a day. That's my problem. That's why Kindle is good for me, because I put, like, 15 books in it.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.
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I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.
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Acting gives me an adrenalin rush I don't get from anything else.
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A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him.
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Directing first film was terrified, it was really very scary because there is a lot of responsibility. I think I was terrified because I wanted it to work so much. A lot of actors direct movies but I thought the stakes were kind of higher for me because I really, really cared. I just worked as hard as I possibly could on every single thing, every single day. I said that if this failed it would not be because I didn't work as hard as I possibly could...every day.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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Simply to ask a blessing upon one's circumstances, whatever they are, is somehow to improve them, and to tap some mysterious source of energy and joy.
