Mary Shelley Quotes
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Ever since I was really little, I loved performing and being up on stage, and being the entertainment.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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Writing 'We Are Never Getting Back Together' was one of the most hilarious experiences I have ever had in the studio because it just happened so naturally.
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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
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I think that the fact that we had a trans woman on the cover of 'Vanity Fair'... is only good for the trans community. I can't imagine that the more we talk about this that it's not just doing everybody a lot of good.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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A novel and its writer are inseparable: you are your books. A play's not like that at all. 'Abandonment's not mine - it's everyone's. I wanted it to be a co-operative thing because I was tired of that anal control that I have over novels.
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If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.' And that's as far as it goes. Because I will simultaneously read a review where somebody says, 'Oh my God, I had so much fun reading this book and I learned so much.'
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Philanthropic dollars are precious resources, so it's our responsibility to consider how we use them carefully. Yet few of us spend enough time doing so.
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For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.
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The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.
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I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.
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Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.
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Mike Judge usually receives underwhelming acclaim for his movies when they come out; it takes a while for people to catch up.
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When I think of something that really is me, that I'm proud of, is honestly, I would have to say, I've never sold my soul along the way... All those things, you're selling your soul, and I don't think I have.
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If I'd ever grown prosperous like he was, I'd not have waited for my beloved's death before I erected a Taj Mahal.
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L. Frank Baum 'Philadelphia North American', (3 October 1904), as quoted by 'Map of Kansas Literature' Washburn.edu.
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To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
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The harsh reality is that we simply cannot tax our way out of our overspending and debt problem. We need a balanced approach that includes both a stronger economy to generate new tax revenues and bipartisan guardrails, which will help ensure that future presidents and congresses spend within our means.
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A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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Elegance is inferior to virtue.
