Mary-Kate Olsen Quotes
I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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I need my fill of Indian home cooking.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.
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Writers and readers are still trying to work out unresolved problems between men and women, and that is why millions of women around the world are hooked on romantic fiction. So am I.
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A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.
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M&A is always an opportunistic tool to grow a company.
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I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.
