Mark Twain Quotes
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.
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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.
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I feel like a good mom. I'm a strong woman now... Don't look down on me. Pray for me because I'm trying.
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I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it.
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Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.
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I just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary.
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Forget market or publishers or whatever. Just write with fire and joy, and in my own experience, those are the stories of mine people have wanted to read.
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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
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I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn.
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To a visitor who asked to become his disciple the Master said, 'You may live with me, but don't become my follower.' 'Whom, then, shall I follow?' 'No one. The day you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.'
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It seems to be my destiny to discourse on truth, insofar as I discover it, in such a way that all possible authority is simultaneously demolished.
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When I got pregnant, I became very interested in natural products. You wonder what you're putting on your skin when you're carrying a child.
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It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
