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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Thalberg wanted commercial hits. I wanted art.
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Reading the script for 'Jennifer's Body,' I just thought that here was a script that really exposes the horror between girls and friendships. I always sort of approached the film with that in mind first, and then thought about the crazy ways that that horror would express itself.
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When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul.
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I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.
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I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.
