Mary Boykin Chesnut Quotes
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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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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The most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the cafe or something doing something weird. It's amazing what people do, isn't it, when you just look at them, when you take the time to look.
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It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.
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I'm a tap dancer. Once you're a tap dancer, you're always a tap dancer. In 'After Midnight,' I get to dance, but I don't do a full tap number.
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I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.
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How do you let go of attachment to things? Don't even try. It's impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.
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Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.
