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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People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
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We Woosters freeze like the dickens when we seek sympathy and meet with cold reserve. "Nothing further Jeeves", I said with quiet dignity.
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Back in '96, I was on 'The Price Is Right' pointing at refrigerators, and 'Extra,' the TV show, came down. They were the first entertainment entity that put people up on the Internet, so they put my picture up, and America Online called the next day and said I got a zillion or whatever downloads. I didn't know what a download was!
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If you tell people what everything is before they have a chance to experience it, then I feel like it's a much different experience.
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I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.
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No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
