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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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
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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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Across the globe, disadvantaged children are not living up to their potential because if they attend school at all, the schools are usually not designed to meet their extra needs.
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To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves - it doesn't matter whether you're a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.
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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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A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.
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I think that now is the moment for us to rededicate ourselves to learning the truth about what happened on February 21st [when Malcolm X was killed]. The place to begin is to make all evidence public, and we have to begin with the federal government, and the FBI.
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I've never been one of those actors who plays chess with his career and goes, 'I'm going to wait now and see what project comes up that can move me to this or that level.' I take stuff as it comes, and it just so happens that it hasn't dried up yet, touch wood.
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I like things that sound like maybe they shouldn't belong.
