Kay Thompson Quotes
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I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.
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You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.
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I actually feel I'm in a much better place than I've ever been because I'm thankful people still love the songs that I've written, and they seem to like me. And they come to the shows in droves, and they get all excited, and I can still hit all the notes, and I don't look terrible.
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We're all music fans and we just love being in a band, and that's why we do it.
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Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me.
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I want to see more people push what it means to be a web show... because it's very difficult to make a living making those types of shows.
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The radio craze will die out in time.
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Think pink. A better way of life.
