Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Quotes
Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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You can say whatever you want about me, I'm not really bothered. But when it starts to upset people I care about or I hear about it from my mum, then that's a problem.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.
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Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.
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The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.
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Helping refugees settle and integrate peacefully, often in the face of distrust and prejudice, is essential work.
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No matter gay, straight or bi, lesbian, transgendered life, I'm on the right track baby I was born to survive.
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Racism is a cancer that America does not want to cure.
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Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.
