Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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Well who's black and what is a black person?
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In Germany, of course, the Holocaust will always be in our history and a big stain on our lives.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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The Department of Justice will continue to pursue those that travel to fight against the United States and our allies, as well as those individuals that recruit others on behalf of ISIL in the homeland.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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On 'Paranormal Activity,' it worked to my advantage not to have much of a crew, but on a bigger movie, where you have to work with a larger group of people who basically become your second family for a few months, it can be a great experience. Even though all of my projects are small scale compared to most Hollywood productions.
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I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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If we set our priority 'the removal of all risk', we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.
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I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawing board at home that I am going to miss.
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It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town, out on the edge of the prairie...
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I was a member of Corstorphine Library in Edinburgh, and every Friday night, my parents took me there to borrow books. I also used to spend nearly all my pocket money on books.
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There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.
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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
