Mark Helprin Quotes
The greatest fight is when you are fighting in the smoke and cannot see with your eyes.
Mark Helprin
Quotes to Explore
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
Paddy Ashdown
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Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.
Felicity Huffman
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
Dan Brown
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
Yann Martel
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They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
Omar Sharif
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Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.
Adam Lambert
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In order to improve healthcare, we'll have to spend more on it, increase accountability and decentralize services, enforce standards and reinstate people's faith in it.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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After school, my sister and I helped our mom in the garden. We grew potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes - not for fun, but to eat.
Irina Shayk
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Every girl has days when she doesn't like her appearance, but it's when you feel happy in yourself that you look good.
Hannah Tointon
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What is funny is when you do a futuristic movie, you immediately get to be fashionable because you're creating something that doesn't exist.
Olivier Theyskens
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Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning... it's a tradition my family has followed since I was very little.
Malaika Arora Khan
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All the events you have experienced in your lifetime up to this moment have been created by your thoughts and beliefs you have held in the past. They were created by the thoughts and words you used yesterday, last week, last month, last year, 10, 20, 30, 40, or more years ago, depending on how old you are.
Louise L. Hay
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A bad book and good marketing won't work, the same way a good book and bad marketing will also not work. There is no choice in the matter that if you need to write a good book, you also need to have good marketing for it.
Amish Tripathi
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I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.
Fedor Emelianenko
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'The Fighter' was about a family struggling to overcome and fighting each other sometimes, and I went back and rewrote this script which I had written for my son initially because my son has mood disorder.
David O. Russell
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Only by fighting for democratic power do workers educate themselves up to the level of being able to wield that power.
Hal Draper
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The greatest fight is when you are fighting in the smoke and cannot see with your eyes.
Mark Helprin
