Dorothy Leigh Sayers Quotes
As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.
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I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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You just make sure you don't screw it up. It's going to work as long as you don't mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.
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It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.
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I've always said that I'll know when I've gone too far because I won't be able to sit down and watch it with my father.
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Finally having the freedom to speak is a really liberating feeling.
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My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself.
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I want to stop piling people into prisons and stop branding people with a felony for a personal weakness.
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I don't know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad.
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I hand him a lyric and get out of his way.
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My son, whoever wishes to keep a secret, must hide from us that he possesses one. Self complaisance over the concealed destroys its concealment.
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If cryonics were a scam it would have far better marketing and be far more popular.
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Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
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Today I started loving you again I'm right back where I've really always been; I got over you just long enough to let my heartache mend, Then today I started loving you again.
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I believe that sovereignty is the twin sister of democracy. If there's no sovereignty, there's no democracy.
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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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It is the world's limitations and the myths that we internalize about ourselves that pushes us to diminish our power and ignore it.
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My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.
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As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.
