Phyllis Smith Quotes
Sadness is a necessary emotion. It's maybe not the most pleasant one to have, but it's cathartic.
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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
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You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.
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I molded myself against le Front National. Against hate speech, be it racist, sexist, xenophobic, or homophobic. Against the kind of injustice I faced during my own life.
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I have created a new genre. It is a soulful creation that comes straight from my heart.
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A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.
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I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.
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I'm committed to the people of Gujarat. I will devote each and every moment to serve my people of Gujarat.
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What's been largely forgotten is that Washington was highly passionate and aggressive, and it was only after losing Philadelphia to the British after a string of disastrous battlefield performances that he finally resigned himself to the more conservative approach with which he has since become associated.
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Yet did that Antiochus, who was also called Dionysius, become an origin of troubles again.
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I can lick my elbow. I know that's supposed to be impossible, but I can do it!
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Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
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The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.
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I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.
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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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From now on it’ll be everybody less one-
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The woman is increasingly aware that love alone can give her full stature, just as the man begins to discern that spirit alone can endow his life with its highest meaning. Fundamentally, therefore, both seek a psychic relation to the other, because love needs the spirit, and the spirit love, for their fulfillment.
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The fact is external feminine beauty is highly valued, and we are constantly given the message that a slamming body is the most valuable thing a woman can possess.
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The best advice I ever received is that there is a difference between urgency and importance: Urgent tasks seem important, but they're not. Important things need to get done.
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Film is my first love. It wasn't something I intended to fall in love with, but I grew to love it.
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Those of you who have fallen prey to any kind of addiction, there is hope because God loves all of His children.
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Further strengthenings of the self-centered instinct for survival recruit even greater numbers of people into some sort of ring of fellowship (church or gender, red state or blue) by populating the terra incognita outside the ring with enough barbarians to verify the existence of a civilization within--to define the preferred stock by what, as all good people agree, it decidedly is not.
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Sadness is a necessary emotion. It's maybe not the most pleasant one to have, but it's cathartic.
