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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I can lick my elbow. I know that's supposed to be impossible, but I can do it!
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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 novel, the novel proper that is, is about people's treatment of each other, and so it is about human values.
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We burn a hot fire here; it melts down all concealment.
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I think I could probably make $5 to $10m movies for a very long time and live a perfectly good life doing it. I'd probably get paid as well as a surgeon, which is pretty damn remarkable for a guy who went to film school.
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I do not believe that there was ever a question of being abstract or representational. It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing, and stretching one's arms again transcendental experiences became possible.
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For me personally, I cannot spend a certain amount of money on anything but shoes, a coat, a purse, and that's it. I could never spend more than $1K on a sweater. I'm only going to wear it twice. But you go online, and you see incredibly expensive sweaters selling out constantly.
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Sadness is a necessary emotion. It's maybe not the most pleasant one to have, but it's cathartic.
