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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He's a layered person, so you have to tackle all the aspects of Tupac individually.
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I love language. It doesn't bother me that its effects are partial. To me that is very sanity-producing. It would be weird if the effects of language were more than partial, if your whole life existed within your texts. That would be much scarier to me than language being an inadequate tool to represent.
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Bernie Madoff is probably more nuanced then I'm giving him credit for, but I just couldn't get under his skin.
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I've kind of had to make a career of playing villains. In order to stay employed, I had to figure out how to play bad guys.
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Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
