Dorothy Thompson Quotes
Indeed, gaiety is singularly lacking everywhere in Russia. What is intense and joyful goes into pioneer work and not into amusement. Only in the company of young communists and artists can one find stimulation.
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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I am confined to the Lego palate. I don't paint the bricks. I stick with what Lego has made. And the idea behind that is I do want to hopefully inspire kids to go home and create on their own. And if I do, I want them to be able to buy those very same bricks I use. So I don't alter the bricks; I just use what's provided.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
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Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'
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I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.
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I love to be in front of big galleries.
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I always have to have a six pack or twelve pack of Entenmann's doughnuts in my house, no other brand.
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And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.
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If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person regardless of gender and must disregard the gender of political opponents.
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Yes I did when I was at university 30 years ago, just for a short time.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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From a very young age, I would fall off the bed and wake up on the floor because of dreams. I have a memory from the age of four in which I felt God.
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The one kind of person I have a lot of trouble understanding is the kind of person that says the existence of God or religion doesn't matter, it's not an important decision. I think it's vitally important; it's what all our lives are based on.
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I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.
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Indeed, gaiety is singularly lacking everywhere in Russia. What is intense and joyful goes into pioneer work and not into amusement. Only in the company of young communists and artists can one find stimulation.
