David O. Selznick Quotes
I can feel that the world this day is different than all the days of our lives before.
Quotes to Explore
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
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I love anything to do with history.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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I've been in a room in Silicon Valley where on the wall they have 160 industries they think blockchain can disrupt. We picked six of them to focus on.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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I guess taking a stand is valid for a commentator. But that's not what I am.
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It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.
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If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
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I've always been round, strong, and muscular.
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I do not want two classes of citizens in this country. I want everybody to prosper. That's going to be a top priority.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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In considering our traditional ties with the Commonwealth we should remember that it now differs greatly from the entity which existed 20 or 30 years ago. Many of us do not feel quite the same allegiance to Archbishop Makarios or Doctor Nkrumah or to people like Jomo Kenyatta as we do towards Mr. Menzies of Australia.
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Well first of all, I'd just like to say that 2005 was a great year, if you like swimming through crap.
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I can feel that the world this day is different than all the days of our lives before.
