Phyllis Bottome Quotes
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I have made enough money to secure my family and that is all I care about.
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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.
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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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Our research is so complex that the resources of a single region of the world are no longer enough - both intellectually and economically, it must be a global effort.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.
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I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'
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I first went to India because of my interest in yoga, hoping to go to the Iyengar Centre in Pune for a while. That didn't work out, but I ended up on a beach in Goa, writing.
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When I'm acting I don't sing, and when I'm recording I'm not acting.
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When you go for business, you just see the airport, the offices, cities. You never see what 80 per cent of the population does in a country, so if you want to understand what Indonesia is made of, or the depths of China or India, you have to go and see.
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Airlines are in a unique position where they do business with virtually everybody.
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The Grammys are just the pinnacle of music.
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My kids speak of both subtle slights and blatant racism. It's a narrative I never imagined for them.
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To be in the right is often an expensive business.
