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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Readers want to visualize your story as they read it. The more exact words you give them, the more clearly they see it, smell it, hear it, taste it. Thus, a dog should be an 'Airedale,' not just a 'dog.' A taste should not be merely 'good' but 'creamy and sweet' or 'sharply salty' or 'buttery on the tongue.'
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The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.
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What I would not like is to be ignored. I write from the heart. I don't write for me. I write for my readers.
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Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.
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To me, in life, if there's, like, a rule, and I think it's ridiculous, then of course I'll circumvent that but also point out how ridiculous the rule is. Other than that, if I go to a concert, and my seat is Row G, Seat 12, I'm sitting in Row G, Seat 12. I don't care if I'm with five other friends, I'm supposed to be in Seat 12, that's my seat.
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I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
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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.
