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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Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.
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Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono. I mean it's ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much.
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Time only has value when it intersects with energy.
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People want me to run for president all the time … I don’t like it. Can you imagine how controversial I’d be? You think about Bill Clinton and the women. How about me with the women? Can you imagine?
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We are living in the time of self-creation and you can become your own star and this is the essential set that it needs to take that selfie that's going to take you to that next place.
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In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.