Mary Shelley Quotes
The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
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We were descended from royalty.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.
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My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.
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I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
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Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.
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What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point.
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Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way - pouty.
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I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.
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As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.
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I hate birthdays.
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It's difficult losing, but it's even more difficult when you didn't make a shot. I could see the ball just didn't go your way on an out-of-bounds play or something like that, but when you're just not making them, it's frustrating.
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My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.
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I was born in Brooklyn and raised in Pittsburgh. I've never been to Iran, I don't speak the language, and, probably most important of all, my Iranian father left home when I was nine months old. That's the extent of my connection to Iran.
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A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.
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So many, and so many, and such glee.
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The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
