Mary Pope Osborne Quotes
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
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My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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You just have to go to bat and take a swing. And if you're not right for a part, or it goes to a British man, they may remember that you showed up, knew your lines and were good. And maybe they'll call you in for something else.
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No one has ever raised capital because their pitch deck was pretty. A lot of people have raised capital because they were over-prepared, knew where their business was going, and were able to articulate that through a pitch alongside a pitch deck.
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I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.
Garry Kasparov
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I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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I'm constantly trying to work on the person that I am and work on my shortcomings, and I guess I want people to know that it's ok to be a work in progress, as long as you keep trying to figure it out. But that search and that discovery is what makes life kind of rich, and it's what makes life rich... period.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ on some stuff. He came over a couple times a week for two weeks and gave me therapy as to whether I should do The Thorns or not.
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It takes a while to tell stories, I think it's because I was drunk for three years.
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Who will want to write if writing doesn't pay?
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Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.
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A vacation for me is when I'm home and I'm writing.