Phyllis Bottome Quotes
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.
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My wife said to me... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.
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I don't have to worry about the obvious things like money.
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Some days, I'll tell you that everything in life was meant to be and that there is an order to the universe. Other days, I'm convinced it's all a combination of luck and opportunity.
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For Eid - or Raya, as the Malaysians call it - we love to shop for new clothes for the festive season. There will be open houses to go to, and Malaysians love to look good for these.
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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
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My mom actually taught fifth grade, so... I'm good with fifth graders. That's, like, my specialty.
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When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.
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The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden.
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'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
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If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.
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It's fun; baseball's fun.
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My so-called bad dress-sense phase happened when I was confused - I think I was taking advice all too often, without listening to my inner voice. Add to the fact that I was a little overweight; so every wrong 'outfit' got compounded all that much.
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I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.
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I think it's important if you are an actor, if you are portraying human life, you have to connect with what is human. It's not easy if you spend a lot of time in L.A. and get sucked into the hedonism of the industry.
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I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.
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I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'
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As a general matter, I believe we should be very slow to make conclusions about the nature of the cosmos based upon inner experience – no matter how profound these experiences seem.
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Sundance was bullshit. Originally Sundance, Sundance maybe in its first few years, I wasn’t there but I went to Sundance for 10 years and it was a vassal of the majors. It was a vassal. Sundance was there to help Miramax and Fox Searchlight. That’s what was independent at Sundance.
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My mom modeled and made clothes, so I always had such an appreciation for design.
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The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things. The proposition is proved to be true, because the boundary of a thing is a surface, which is not part of the body contained within that surface; nor is it part of the air surrounding that body, but is the medium interposted between the air and the body, as is proved in its place.
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I thought love was more or less a giving thing. Seems the more I gave, the less I got.
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We are sculptures in the making, just begun by the great Artist; not yet formed but indicative of what is to come.
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No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
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There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.
