Dorothy Salisbury Davis Quotes
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The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. The 20 percent is just the queen aspect that factors in. But for me, it's life as usual, and it's just taking care of my family.
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Nothing is absolute in security.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
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I have an emotional attachment with Katihar.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.
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My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from Katherine and put it with his name, sort of to give me my dad's namesake. But it's hysterical how often it gets misspelled. I used to be like, 'No one capitalizes my D!'
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Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.
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I don't know; it's hard for me to understand people that want to get out there and protest on the first day we elect a new guy.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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Dilip Kumar was the only Bollywood hero who could make a girl shiver just by looking at her. If you don't believe it, ask your mom!
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If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.
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It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.
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Flattery makes fools of the best of us.
