Mary Hunter Austin Quotes
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Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.
Irvine Welsh
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Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
Warren Bennis
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2009 was crazy enough! I can't believe I worked with Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen, Marsha Mason, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, Jack O'Brien and Trevor Nunn in the same 12 months.
Aaron Lazar
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I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
Harri Holkeri
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The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.
Octavio Paz
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Be willing to shed parts of your previous life. For example, in our 20s, we wear a mask; we pretend we know more than we do. We must be willing, as we get older, to shed cocktail party phoniness and admit, 'I am who I am.'
Gail Sheehy
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The train slows down, it's the Cais do Sodré. I arrived to Lisbon, but not to a conclusion.
Fernando Pessoa
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When stripped, I looked less like 'Il David' than a plucked chicken that died of myxomatosis.
Quentin Crisp
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I liked Truffaut a lot, I've felt a lot of admiration for his way to address the audience, and his storytelling.... La nuit américaine is adorable, and another film I like to see is L'enfant sauvage, with its fine humanism.
Ingmar Bergman
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Die before you Die. There is no chance after.
C. S. Lewis
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God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.
Rabindranath Tagore
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...People that don’t have any interest in the psychology of nuance, who need everything to be in their face, who don’t want to analyze... those aren’t the people I romanticize about dressing.
Marc Jacobs
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The stuff that I learned on 'Sons,' the education of how to tell stories, was part of that mythology. It's hard to look at it and go, 'Oh, if I knew this, I would have done it this way,' because the fact is I like to think that all that sort of unraveled as it was supposed to.
Kurt Sutter
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You never know: rain, sleet, hail, snow,
See you gotta accept that's how things go.
Prepare for the rainy day, or the sun's glow,
But there's clouds movin' in and the clouds gonna blow.
Kamaal Ibn John Fareed
A Tribe Called Quest
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Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
Felix Adler
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I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.'
Sandra Bullock
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My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both.
Jack Wagner
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I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.
Mary Hunter Austin
