Florence King Quotes
He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
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I was a tomboy.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.
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The market for local advertising is in the billions.
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I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.
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I stayed attached to baseball through the kids and through minor league baseball, and I'm very satisfied with the schedule it allows me to have, which means I'm home until my kids go off to college. I value that time.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what they're saying, it's quite hard to find cracks.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.
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I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.
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It was curious how life seemed to weave a pattern that was not in the least haphazard, as it so often seemed to be.
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My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.
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When you're the guy behind the camera, you're aware of the reasons for the compromises or the changes that get made. As an actor, you go and do your thing, and someone else down the line then does all the math and goes, "We can't include that thing where he's pretending to be dumb and needling those people, because it takes a minute and a half, and it ruins the next scene. It doesn't make sense." If you're directing, you're the one doing that.
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A viable new feminism must directly confront the realm of practice.
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Feminism was a dirty word for a while.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
