Delia Ephron Quotes
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
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My daughter passed away in 2003.
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I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back between northern and southern hemispheres and moving itself around the world. By the time it gets back to where it started, it's changed sufficiently so that people are no longer immune.
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Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.
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I guess the idea of doing albums in their entirety, in sequence, appeals to people. I guess it's the memory of being able to hear the music in the way it was originally presented.
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I'm unbelievably superstitious.
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I don't know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.
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I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a libertarianism.
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I wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming.
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In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.
