Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes
We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.
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Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
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Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
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Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write – I find it gets in the way.
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Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.
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I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.
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It's a trend to insult Wale, like that makes you cool on the Internet, and a part of it is because I respond.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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My childhood was colorfully anarchic and punctuated by a lot of change.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
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I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.
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Content is king. When you are asking people to read you several times a day, you better have some fine content.
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Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.
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Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.
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When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.
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I'm one of 10 children, and all my brothers call me Jim. And all my sisters... well, they call me something even more affectionate. My mother calls me James, and I do what my mother tells me.
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If future history is not to be just one damned thing after another in space, then what we really have to do is in some way overcome this linear experience of time that makes all existence a quest for something that will never be found.And philosophies such as Zen seem to hint that this is possible.
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Reputations are maintained by the outside world, and they're created by it, too, by and large. And they serve as a hell of a device for privacy, because the more people look for something that's not there, the less chance they have of violating who you are. It's like going out there with a mask on, without having to exercise your upper body to put it on.
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I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.
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I'm not one of those girls who gets with somebody for the jewelry.
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We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.
