Mary Roberts Rinehart Quotes
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I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.
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One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours.
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Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they're mine.
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I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents' faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, 'I could get used to this.' And I just never stopped.
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
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I'm not into the attention thing so much.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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My personal philosophy is that people should be extremely selfish for the first half of their life and extremely unselfish for the second half because then they can do the most good.
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She had been dressed in her sky-blue gown and had been suddenly almost terrible in her completeness-so different from the ragged serving girl who had slept on his shoulder. And yet, the very same girl had been inside that blue dress.
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We have to be careful not to look for confidence in the acceptance of others because true confidence only comes from knowing God.
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I'm baffled all the time. We don't know what's driving 96% of the universe. Everybody you know and love and heard of and think about and see in the night sky through a telescope: four percent of the universe.
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I like to take my dog on the road. He stays up front; he likes it there.
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Democracy holds little appeal for people who are struggling to survive.
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I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
