Daphne du Maurier Quotes
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There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.
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As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves!
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
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On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
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It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.
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My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
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I wanted to greet people in Telugu, so I asked someone how to say 'How are you' in Telugu. In fact, I instructed my entire staff to speak to me only in Telugu. So, there were times when I would ask them to translate certain words for me in Hindi, but the effort paid off.
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Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.
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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.
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I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.
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I was in the streets at eight, nine years old.
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I don't just want to be someone who hits the ball 100 per cent every time. You can play with freedom and still mix up the pace, mix up the spins and everything like that. That's what I want to be doing, because you get into that very one-dimensional kind of tennis if you don't work on slicing and coming into the net.
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But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.
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She had impressed him as capable of behaviour even more meaningless than most human beings. He had watched her kill her own people with a ferocity that betrayed real grief. But she was someone, he had decided early, who struggled harder with life than she needed to: this he respected, even admired.
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We're no longer in the days where everything is super well crafted. But at the heart of the programs that make it to the top, you'll find that the key internal code was done by a few people who really know what they were doing.
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The factors that laid low so whooping and puissant an empire as the old Hollywood are many. I can think of a score, including the barbarian hordes of Television. But there is one that stands out for me in the post-mortem.... The factor had to do with the basis of movie-making: ‘Who shall be in charge of telling the story.’
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A lot of people have said I'm the anti-Kim Kardashian and I'm all right with that.
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All autobiography is self-indulgent.
