Ella Maillart Quotes
I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it - why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?
Quotes to Explore
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I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.
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When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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I have an extended family of close friends, guy and girls.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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If someone takes you out, and you're wearing sweatpants and a T-shirt, and they take you to a fancy place and you're unprepared, that's bad.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
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I can take an opinion, but I don't like when you try and spew hate and contaminate the way other people think. I feel like I'm one of the people that's always made music for the common man. That's why I don't really live my life the way I could. I don't stunt as much as I could stunt, 'cause that's not who my music is for.
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Don't worry about Yemen. Yemen started in peace, and it will end its revolution in peace, and it will start its new civil state with peace.
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One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'
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I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.
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There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.
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You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.
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Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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They live forever, but many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life’s value.
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Believe it or not, I'm a bit clumsy with technology. It's probably why I'm so excited about the touchscreen - even an idiot can use it!
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Things just kind of stick with me, and writing, for me, is always an investigation into my own feelings about them. I wonder why things stick to me, and I try to synthesize those into a dramatic experience in some ways.
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The emotional stuff is the biggest challenge, for me to access that. As life passes, you encounter difficulties and tragedies, and so it becomes easier. 'Carnivale' required that of me, and it was really hard.
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I kind of prefer to be sort of ahead of the pack checking things out, priming the canvas, if you will, for the younger guys that are going to come up and try to make their own statements about what they feel and what they have to contribute.
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I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it - why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?
