Mary Browne Quotes
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I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.
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I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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I trust no one - that microphone, that book.
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Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
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So often, when we don't have people that can be representative or symbolic of leadership and of faith, of purpose, in that absence we become bitter and resentful.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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One should know their body types well to experiment with trends.
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Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.
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You can't hire someone to practice for you.
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I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
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Jesus would not be crucified today. The prophets would not be stoned. Socrates would not drink the hemlock. They would instead be banned from the Sunday talk shows and op-ed pages by the sentries of establishment thinking who guard against dissent with the one weapon of mass destruction most cleverly designed to obliterate democracy: the rubber stamp.
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What I find is that it's the middle-aged authors who have lived a life who have the most important, interesting voices. They just need someone to give them the key to unlock the door.
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sub specie aeternitatis
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A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
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Clothe me entire in the final filament, So that I tremble with such love so known And myself am precious for your perfecting.
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Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
