Paul Valery Quotes
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
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Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.
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I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old Tasmanian Mauve Vein. I think it's because I talk about things that people dare not mention. I don't mean raunchy things or unsavoury things. I call a spade a spade - I discuss things in a realistic manner.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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My responsibility is to ensure that the position of the Department of Justice is not only legally defensible, but is informed by our best view of what the law is after consideration of all the facts.
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Gustafsson is a stud, man. He's a good fighter.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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The only other things I got from the abstract expressionists is the absolute belief that this canvas is the complete total area of struggle, this is the arena, this is where the fight is taking place, the battle. Everybody believes that, but you have to really believe that and work that way.
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Patriotism and loyalty in defense of the Constitution of the United States is constantly enjoined upon us. President McKay again this morning has made reference to the cause of liberty in his remarks. To be effective in such teaching, we must begin by inspiring in each heart the faith that the Constitution of the United States was written by inspired men whom God raised up for that very purpose.
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After the '57 initial meeting - I was up this way working, not as a staff person - there became the need for a much more definite organized office. What you'd had prior to that time were these big meetings in different places, and there was nobody to pull anything together. Everything was left to [Martin Luther] King and the group that was around him.
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I like making things. I don't like getting my picture taken.
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Dementia is quite unlike cancer or heart disease or any of those other conditions where you bargain with God for a cure or even just a bit more time.
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The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
