Daphne du Maurier Quotes
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Sadly, half of marriages end in divorce. Half of my girl friends and male friends have been through one, and their kids are doing great. There's no shame around it - unless you want to project that on to yourself - but certainly there's no longer cultural shame. Everyone is walking through it.
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Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.
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Maybe 'America first' means also that you have to deal with America first.
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Mike Campbell and Don Henley and I wrote 'The Heart of the Matter,' which was a huge hit for Don.
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The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.
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I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.
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I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.
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I wouldn't swap the era I competed in for anything, not a day of it. I started out as an amateur, and people like myself, Seb Coe, Steve Ovett, Steve Cram, Tessa Sanderson and the rest did it for the glory of winning medals for our country.
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It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.
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Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
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It doesn't matter who they put in front of me, I just want people to remember me.
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Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.
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A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.
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I think it's fairly clear that playing hockey isn't the same as playing football.
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It's cheesy, but having a pimple or a bad hair day isn't going to matter in five years. I don't always remember that, but I try.
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I have always been very into pagan hairstyles. If I were alive a long time ago, I would probably have been burned at the stake.
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God bless you, my dear!
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Marriage is rarely bliss But, surely it would be worse As particles to pelt At thousands of miles per sec About a universe In which a lover's kiss Would either not be felt Or break the loved one's neck.
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We can't deny the existence of caste in India. We have to live with it.
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I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things.
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I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage.
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And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.
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Legal business has, from the beginning of time, been profitable - to those who have conducted it; because it is concerned with things that touch men's passions very deeply, and because men are willing to pay, and pay highly, for wisdom and skill in the conduct of it. The real merits of the Norman lawyers were, not altruism, but ability, energy, and enthusiasm for their work.
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Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
