Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.
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Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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Every one of us, no matter how damaged or abnormal or shut down, we're all looking for love. Every person needs love in this world, but our views on what love is vary enormously.
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There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.
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My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it's one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The relationship took a lot of rebuilding.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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We see what we have always seen. If it seems, it is.
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I support anyone finding their worth despite being told they can't do something.
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Consider how great is the encouragement which all the world gives to the lover; neither is he supposed to be doing anything dishonourable; but if he succeeds he is praised, and if he fail he is blamed.
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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
