Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
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When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.
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When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.
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And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.
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One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
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Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.
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My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things.
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I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.
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Most of the time, I'm not even working; I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.
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My family has always called me 'Lay Lay,' and my dad used to always call me 'Dynamite Termite' because I was really short and small and I hated to be still. I would never stop.
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The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?
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I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.
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I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.
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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
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The first thing I did that was at all in the public eye, other than on stage, was 'Oz,' in which I played the head of the Aryan Brotherhood in a maximum-security prison.
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A very unclubable man.
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When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego.
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Cable's on fire. Traditional broadcast TV's hearing a death knell. I sample as much television as possible. I like 'Homeland,' 'Game of Thrones,' 'Veep.' Now reinvention's important.
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It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.
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My real experience with video games was watching other people play. That's why a lot of my work isn't really about playing. It's about watching video games.
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To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain.
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I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
