James M. Cain Quotes
I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept.
James M. Cain
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The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.
Laura Wilkinson
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
Karen Salmansohn
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I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.
Imelda Staunton
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Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
Rafael Vinoly
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The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.
Fefe Dobson
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To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
Bayard Rustin
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As artists, we must not go down to the level of the masa; we should bring them up, intellectualize our languages, create classics out of our folk arts. We can do this if we are true to our roots and strive for excellence.
F. Sionil Jose
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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.
Abraham Cahan
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That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In the other hand, he's got his hand in the pocket of American consumers.
Ed Markey
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I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.
Taylor Swift
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Soaps are great. You learn to work very fast - some say superficially, but that's not really true. You do some very serious character work. I've never had any feelings about a stigma attached to it, and nowadays there seems to be less snobbery about what you do. More and more big names are doing TV and commercials and voiceovers.
Charles Shaughnessy
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Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names - the products of a good publicity department.
Ann Sothern
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If you are a skinny, baby-faced teenager, the last thing you want to hear is that you're cute.
Jamie Dornan
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on becoming an artist It is my profession, yes to be an artist but a calling.. that a little bit pathetic, a little bit bombastic. I think it was much more natural.. .I Thought – when I was a child – the only method to be not in the world but outside of the world is to be an artist. I feel me outside, yes..
Anselm Kiefer
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Under pressure, you can win with your mind.
Tiger Woods
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I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept.
James M. Cain
