Mary Timony Quotes
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
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All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'
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The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn't end when you come off the court.
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There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who divert people from the real publishing industry into this shadow world of vanity publishing and fee-charging agents.
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Having people jumping in front of you taking a photo can be unnerving.
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I worked in SRK and Salman Khan's films as a child artiste, so Bollywood has always been on my radar.
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We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.
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Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.
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In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.
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Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.
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I don't like things set in stone.
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I just love asking questions. I love people. It's in my DNA. I'm cursed - and blessed.
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Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class.
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Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.
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I also sort of find the idea that not only do actors want to please when they're onstage, I find actors really want to please off stage a lot of the time, don't they?
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I applied my reason at every moment. Reason is excellent for getting food, clothing and shelter. Reason is the very best tool kit. Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.
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I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't.
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As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry, and I definitely put up these walls.
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I like things that sound like maybe they shouldn't belong.
