Mary Shelley Quotes
My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them.

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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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I'm process-orientated. Awards, by their nature, are results-orientated.
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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
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There is no such thing as women's intuition. You all just have crap poker faces.
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You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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I'm tired now of the elections.
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I'm not the type that's going to sit and preach to people if they don't need it just because I've been around the block a few times.
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O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
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What would be a road hazard anywhere else, in the Third World is probably the road.
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Much of the prejudice against Islam in the West stems from a lack of understanding of the true nature of Islam as a religion professed by 1.4 billion people in the world.
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Voyaging into the night, one knows exactly where, on a known vessel, an absolute harmony with the elements of the unreal. 1959, reacting on a remark of Robert Motherwell
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'I was ordained,' said the preacher. 'No one ordains artists. They ordain themselves.'Just as Taleswapper had expected. The preacher retreated to authority as soon as he feared his ideas could not stand on their own merit. Reasonable argument was impossible when authority became the arbiter.
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The things I want to express are so beautiful and pure.
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In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.
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Music is like a lifeblood - it changes the way I move; it changes the way I feel about myself. The way I walk into the room is different depending on the song I was just listening to.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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Every time I work on a scene or I work on the overall movie, I had my kids unconsciously in mind. Is that going to please them? Is it going to be funny for them? And if it is funny for them, is it going to be funny for their friends and their friends' friends?
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My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them.