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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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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Most people are nice and just want to have a chat.
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I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out.
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Think of the sushi trend that started in the '80s. It was as much about the Nintendo entertainment system in your living room as it was about the availability of good-quality raw fish. The Japanese food trend rose as the world of Japanese business and culture was becoming a bigger part of American life.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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To be in the right is often an expensive business.
