Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
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I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I'm an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.
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Doing the sword fighting is like picking up a dance routine... I think dancing really helps with the picking up of it.
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I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.
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In Japan, I am famous in certain special circles - mainly as someone who is trying to break down and enlighten the conventions of Japanese art.
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Perhaps cliche is nothing more than the weight of the past pinning down your mind. In this sense, imaginative freedom is a way of finding the future, though it isn't so easy to do.
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A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
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Take the job that you would take if you were independently wealthy.
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Zur Verknechtung der Sprache im Geschwätz tritt die Verknechtung der Dinge in der Narretei fast als deren unausbleibliche Folge.
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The boy had to pay the piper, so they all stay in fear of the neighborhood sniper
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Tell me, my soul, can this be death?
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Crowley wanted to be a magician because he wanted power - power over other people.
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The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.
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As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.
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Eighty percent of the cases used in the typical MBA program are about successful companies. Students graduate with this notion that 'If I do everything that the people in those cases did, then my organization will grow and be successful, too.'
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I am a deeply spiritual and religious person both privately and publicly.
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I think that more and more there's a sense that the best performances I can give are the ones that are the truest to who I am. The further I move away from who I am, the worse they are.
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'Dexter' has been very, very good to me. I would rather stop doing it than cheapen it.
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Haiti had leaders like Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Toussaint Louverture, Henri Christophe, and why not a second King for the Kingdom of Haiti
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Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.
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I've had moments in my life where it was all out on the table. Everything I had. I'm okay with that, because I had a strong belief that what I was doing other people could believe in it, too, if I can get it just right.
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I get the feeling that characters are written female when they have to be, and all the other characters are male, and it doesn't occur to somebody that the lawyer, the best friend, the landlord, whoever, can be female.
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No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
