Pearl S. Buck Quotes
I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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The world is always in movement.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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Microsoft makes numerous apps for both Android and iOS, as do Google, Amazon and Facebook. You can run iTunes and iCloud on Windows and Office on the Mac.
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The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
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Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.
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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
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One thing that keeps me awake at night: I am a mother and, I have to confess with great delight, a grandmother of five girls, which gives me great hope for the future - girl power! Can I say that without alienating all of the men?
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Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.
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I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.
