Mary Boykin Chesnut Quotes
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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Success can allow you to try for greatness, can give you an opportunity to take a chance on something. I'm very blessed to have the success that I've had, and that's given me so many opportunities to work on being great.
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I sent 'Hell or High Water' to Peter Berg, asking if he'd like to be involved.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?
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Google never knew how successful key words would be.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
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Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.
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I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.
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Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.
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When you make documentaries or short films, you have to have eyes and ears in the back of your head and on the sides and all around you. I like that in my films.
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As the years have gone on, I find one of the dangers of watching dailies... is you fall in love with moments.
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Completely overwhelmed, it is huge project to be working on 'Singh Is Bliing.' How everyone is enjoying the film is everything to me. Definitely, it is the biggest milestone of my career.
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Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.
