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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Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves.
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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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If I'm going to get hit, why let the guy who's going to hit me get the easiest and best shot? I explode into the guy who's trying to tackle me.
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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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I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint.
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I had planned to retire when I was 13, ... I had wanted to be a veterinarian.
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The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.
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Is she not passing fair?
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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.
