Mary Wesley Quotes
You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it.
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I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.
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It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking our careers will come to a standstill, or worse, crash and burn if we aren't social media butterflies.
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The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.
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Some people really like to get into Twitter, but it's not my thing.
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The more insight I get, the more scared I get of women in general.
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I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
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In 1595, by order of the Privy Council, the English armed services abandoned the longbow and fought with muskets for the next two centuries and more. Nobody is sure why.
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I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
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I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.
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If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else.
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It wasn't such a pleasant experience. We went through 14 hours with contractions every two minutes, no epidural, no nothing. Every two minutes, I would pass out. I went to the hospital on Saturday, and Levi was born on Monday.
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The idea was always to be an actor.
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I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more acting projects. Right now I'm trying to sort things out, so I can make the right choices.
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Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience.
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What's really happening is that every bank in the country is experimenting with the blockchain and experimenting with bitcoin to figure out where the value is. For the first time ever, they're working hand in hand with startups. Banks are asking startups for help to build products.
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That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
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The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'
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One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.
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We can all reduce our life to a description that makes people feel sorry for ourselves or we can expand our life to a dimension where we connect and give to others.
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Ralph Ellison's essays were models for me when I began my life as a critic. Slipping cultural yokes and violating aesthetic boundaries, he made criticism high-stakes work, especially for a black critic.
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In the end, what counts is what you do.
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If you're really good at doing what you do, good things will come.
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When I get "too busy" to pray, I envision Jesus at the Pearly Gates showing me the time I wasted looking for something to watch on Netflix.
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You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it.
