Mary Pilon Quotes
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There is no must in art because art is free.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.
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I don't commit to things unless I have my A-team to do it. And I'm not trying to be cocky, but that shows in my productions. They are top notch!
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I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
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Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their biggest enemy is the army of lazy bums, whose lifestyle of indolence and hedonism, financed by crippling taxes on the rich, is sucking the lifeblood out of the economy.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
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Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.
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There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).
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Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
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I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.
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Though perhaps less universally known than such figures as Einstein or Gandhi (who became symbols of our time) Daisetz Suzuki was no less remarkable a man than these. And though his work may not have had such resounding and public effect, he contributed no little to the spiritual and intellectual revolution of our time.
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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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I think it's very easy to disgust the reader with violence on the page - that's incredibly easy - but it's far harder to make a reader care about a character.
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Everything I do from now on, I'll have a mustache. I can promise you that. I don't care who I have to convince. If you see me with a mustache in a movie or on stage in the future, you'll know that I pitched the idea.
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I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
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Virtual reality has an exciting future and oodles of room to grow.
