Mary Astor Quotes
It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.
Quotes to Explore
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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You don't fight ideas with bombs.
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Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
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There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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My dad was in a hospital for months. The doctors told my dad he would never be able to walk again. My dad beat all the odds. He came back and was able to walk and start boxing again. He went to No. 1 in the world at welterweight to fight for the world title. But he never had his chance to fight for a world title.
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The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.
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When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the history itself is not something that I would call backdrop. It's not window dressing for a timeless relationship about love and betrayal. For me, the setting and the specific history are active co-agents with me in trying to form the novel.
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Shout out to my boy Guwop. We came in the game, and we learned from the best.
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Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.
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It was fantastic when I came into snooker, when tobacco was throwing lots of money at it, and even when they fell away we thought others would come in because of all the TV exposure. But it didn't happen.
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I learned long ago, back with 'Lover Revealed,' that my job is to sit at the computer, shut up and type. Otherwise? The pictures and the voices go away!
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The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?
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It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.
