Mary Boykin Chesnut Quotes
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies would search them and they'd find you. It doesn't seem to work that way. There aren't enough jobs for experienced, college educated managers and professionals.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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Like a bottle of wine or a promising college quarterback turning pro, C.E.O.'s are similar to what economists call experience goods: you commit to a price long before you know if they're worth it.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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I shampoo every other day and only do the roots. I can't shampoo all the way down to the end, because it will dry my hair out. I use a mask multiple times a week to restore moisture.
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The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.
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I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.
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I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.
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Society puts so much pressure on girls to look a certain way.
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Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.
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The role of an actor is to make every character believable.
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I just keep thinking how lucky I am that I haven't had to sacrifice anything.
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Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.
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Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.
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I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
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Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.
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Perhaps the most important thing one can discover through the practice of meditation is that the 'self'-the conventional sense of being a subject, a thinker, an experiencer living inside one's head-is an illusion.
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I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.
