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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To know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker.
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I think the best entertainment tackles social issues in a sort of seamless way.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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I think that I've just kind of found my niche, if that makes sense. I still write the same, but I feel like I've found what separates me, and I always try to stay in that when I write. It took me a long time to discover that, so I try to be protective.
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Don't write slogans, write truths.
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I like things that sound like maybe they shouldn't belong.
