Mary MacLane Quotes

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

Mary MacLane

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• Ask your agent to set up a meeting with either your editor or the marketing department of the house or both so you can find out what they're doing, what they aren't, and what you can do to help.

  

  M. J. Rose
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• I honestly can't describe what goes on in my head when I'm out there. People who don't wrestle can't possibly understand it. When I'm in the ring, I don't feel any pain. I'm in another world out there.

  

  Eddie Guerrero
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• I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.

  

  Nan Hayworth
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• I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.

  

  T. J. Miller
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• One Hundred Year Starship really is about the idea that is we pursue an extraordinary tomorrow; we'll build a better world today.

  

  Mae Jemison
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• I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
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• What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Courage
  • Ignorance
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• I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Always
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• Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • May
  • Today
  • Lost

• You look at Moto3, the races are very exciting. Moto2 is fantastic, and then MotoGP is boring.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • You
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• Another car is not going to help me out, a nicer car, I've already got it. A bigger house ain't gonna do anything for me, and you know, a yacht, it's not going to do anything for me anymore. So how can I find happiness?

  

  Vanilla Ice
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• Impatience is a virtue.

  

  Ursula Burns
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• Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort!

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • World
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• My mother's proud of where she's from, and her history, and her past, and same with my dad. I have roots in Africa. Like, I am from Africa as well as from Germany, and I am very proud of that.

  

  Zendaya
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• They constantly try to escape From the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good. But the man that is shall shadow The man that pretends to be.

  

  T. S. Eliot
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• I enjoyed it from a very early age. When I had to make my own living after college, I decided to give doing what I enjoyed most a shot as a profession. It worked out and I’ve never had to 'work' for a living since. If I hadn’t gotten so lucky, there were plenty of options open to me being, after all, a young educated white male in America.

  

  Clancy Brown
  • Work
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• The gratification you feel from making tangible progress while running is just about unparalleled, so I understand why people love it. But it's also hard, grueling work. Those feel-good benefits have to be earned four to five times a week.

  

  Chip Gaines
  • People
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• Agribusinesses should never dictate the quality of school meals.

  

  Jared Polis
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• Penelope Fitzgerald's nine novels are thin enough that if you were so inclined, you could take her entire literary output down from the shelf with a single stretched hand. You'd be holding an eclectic bunch.

  

  Ben Dolnick
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• Every so often, I am thanked for being 'unapologetically me.' I treasure those moments, those people, and remember them every time I'm feeling timid.

  

  Alethea Kontis
  • People
  • Time
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• When I hold you, you will be the Duchess of Earl.

  

  Gene Chandler
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• I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

  

  Charles Baudelaire

• She leaned in, and kissed her Marid gently, sweetly. She tried to kiss him the way she’d always thought kisses would be. His lips tasted like the sea.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
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  • Sea
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• I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

  

  Mary MacLane