Phyllis Schlafly Quotes
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.
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Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.
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My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.
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Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman – her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
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I got married quite early. And then I had a son. I had a family. And this may be hard to believe, but I am a complete family kinda girl.
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I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.
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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
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My message is not just to disabled people, but to everyone: You have to work hard.
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When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.
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I challenged myself to carry on the style of guitar that my grandmother did: the Carter scratch.
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A good litmus test is that you should be comfortable with your significant other being present when you hang out with your friend.
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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
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My interest is in making sure we‘ve got the kind of comprehensive energy policy that can bring down gas prices. If, in order to get that passed, we have to compromise in terms of a careful, well-thought out oil strategy that was carefully circumscribed to avoid significant environmental damage. I don't want to be so rigid that we can't get something done.
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Beware of the manipulativeness of rich students who were neglected by their parents. They love to turn the campus into hysterical psychodramas of sexual transgression, followed by assertions of parental authority and concern. And don’t look for sexual enlightenment from academe, which spews out mountains of books but never looks at life directly.
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An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.
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Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand, To read it well: that is, to understand.
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Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?
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I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
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My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way.
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The apple trees were in full bloom, the scent enveloping the party in a heady, almost palpable mist, and pale petals rocked on the glittering surface of the water and lay in white mats against the banks.
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Alan Funt was the first hidden-camera magician. It was the playful nature of the way he worked that really inspired me. A lot of prank shows and hidden-camera shows can be a little mean-spirited. Funt was never like that.
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Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress.
