Booth Tarkington Quotes
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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I definitely had to do some soul searching, and there would be a lot of times where I would sit back and look at the Internet and say to myself, 'This is a way of being able to communicate with all my fans all over the world, other than just being in New York and only hearing the New York side of things.'
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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I feel like I'm five sometimes because I still enjoy myself. I enjoy what I do.
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One of my goals is that, at a dinner party some time in the future, someone will say, 'Oh, my nephew is starting a ready-to-wear brand', and 20 people will turn around and say, 'Is he? Can we invest?' in the same way that, now, if you were to say, 'My nephew is starting a mobile app,' everyone would say, 'Oh, smashing! Can I invest?'
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Many are called but few get up.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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I love love stories, no matter how dark.
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It's often out of my own insecurity. If I'm picky, it's for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I'm not connecting to something, then I'm not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that's really embarrassing.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
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I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.
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The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.
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My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.
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The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.
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I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.
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The time of day we choose for prayer doesn't matter, so long as we keep it faithfully. Prayer must be part of the rhythm of our daily lives.
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Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.
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So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
