Mary Ellen Chase Quotes
Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.
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I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.
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Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
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Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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Petty laws breed great crimes.
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When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.
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Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell.
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I do like routines. Waking up the same time, go to bed the same time.
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I let the comedy come through the character and just try to make sure that everything is kind of rounded in a truth, in a reality, because that's what I need to make a character work.
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I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress.
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A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.
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Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.
