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 am 100% proud Puerto Rican but have lived two-thirds of my life in the United States. So, there will be some things I write in English, but my main way of conversing with my audience is in Spanish because, at the end of the day, I'm a Latino.
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I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I guess, in Boston through the time when I finally left to come to New York. That book had a number of sort of rites of passage for me.
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Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.
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If people were in the habit of refering to 'King George's council, Winston and his gang,' it would go a long way to clearing thought, and reducing the frightful landslide into Theyocracy.
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It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn't.
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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.
