Blake Edwards Quotes
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Every concert I've finished with the knowledge I've played a fistful of wrong notes.
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It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
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I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.
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A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.
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The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
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A fascinating reaction of the human brain when we fail to meet a goal is that it tells us to throw caution to the wind and make things even worse, which ultimately leads to us giving up.
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In high school, I had a really difficult time just loving myself. It's weird; I feel like in the world we live in today, you're not supposed to be like, 'I'm beautiful,' like that's a conceited thing to say.
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I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.
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My main concern is getting out an album that I feel really proud of.
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There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.
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It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.
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I think a lot of what I was taught, gathered, and learned is worth keeping. Heritage and 'wisdom' and simply personal family and local history enrich the one able to tap such information. As it is I wish I had garnered more from my grandparents and parents.
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Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality.
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In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.
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There shall be no love lost.
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The master enjoined not austerity, but moderation. If we truly enjoyed things, he claimed, we would be spontaneously moderate. Asked why he was so opposed to ascetical practices, he replied, 'Because they produce pleasure-haters who always become people-haters - rigid and cruel.'
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Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
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I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?
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In writing, I've found, playing it safe and familiar is no way to energize anybody.
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I'm very prescriptive about who I work with.
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Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.
