Djuna Barnes Quotes
Somewhere beneath her hurried curse, A corpse lies bounding in a hearse; And friends and relatives disperse, And are not stirred.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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Yeah, I'm running for the White House again. Well, it's not a run, really; it's sort of a brisk walk.
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.
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To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
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The interweb's got a weird vibe.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, 'Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.'
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.
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What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book - a key part of our planet's cultural legacy.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.
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I'll say anything to live.
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I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'
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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
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I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.
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With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.
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You know how country music stars get an extra 10 years on their life when they go to Branson? Like you're washed up, and you go to Branson, then you can last another 10 years. That's what bashing the media does.
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I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.
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Coffee is my water now.
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Somewhere beneath her hurried curse, A corpse lies bounding in a hearse; And friends and relatives disperse, And are not stirred.
