Djuna Barnes Quotes
Ah God! she settles down we say; It means her powers slip away It means she draws back day by day From good or bad.

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I was a good sight reader and I could sing two or three of these jingles a day. An orchestra would come in for half an hour, and then the singers would come in and knock 'em out, and go on to the next one. I was the voice of Budweiser and Almond Joy.
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My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.'
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Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.
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When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.
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Sometimes I pray when I really feel like I need God to help me with something, and sometimes we just have conversations. We just kick it.
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I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.
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In some ways, Trump's large, national coalition defies easy characterization. He draws from a broad base of good people: kind folks who open their homes and hearts to people of all colors and creeds, married couples with happy homes and families who live nearby, public servants who put their lives on the line to fight fires in their communities.
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I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.
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I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.
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Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
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When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.
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In Kansas City, most of the time, if we'd have made it to the playoffs, we would have been happy. But our team wasn't that good.
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A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.
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During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.
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I think any good actor is an anarchist. They have to be.
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... if the majority of men cannot know what is good for them, each for himself, how can they know what is good for others by proxy? If they are to be controlled by specialists, how and by what standard can they choose the specialist?
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Partly through choice, I was never willing to hire out more than three days a week making illustrations for the magazines to support himself, c. 1912 I kept some time to do my own work. Illustrating was a depressing experience. And I didn't get very good prices because I didn't often do what they wanted.
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I didn't want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.
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What Strauss is going through drives you nuts. If you care about your batting - which I'm sure he does - he will feel like jumping off a bridge and committing suicide
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Nobody does remakes for the sake of it. As for me, I have not hard and fast rules with respect to remakes.
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Ah God! she settles down we say; It means her powers slip away It means she draws back day by day From good or bad.