Bobbie Ann Mason Quotes
Writing a novel about World War II and the French Resistance was a challenge both sobering and thrilling.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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I support gay unions. I think the government should get out of the marriage business completely - leave marriages to the churches. And grant civil unions to gay couples, grant civil unions to a man and woman.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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What does 'work' mean in this 21st, ultra-wired century, with its exploding new industries, low barriers to entry and endless possibilities? Is technology making our lives more flexible - or our days more endless?
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I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
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Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.
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I wash my face day and night. I actually really love Dr. Lancer face wash, and I also love Neutrogena.
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I feel like that would be pretty strange to meet a voice actor as a kid.
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Making music should not be left to the professionals.
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Writing a novel about World War II and the French Resistance was a challenge both sobering and thrilling.
