Pearl S. Buck Quotes
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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I can't even go down to the park anymore back home in Newark, New Jersey because my homeboys won't let me play. They tell me I'm too big time, too Hollywood, so they won't let me play out there no more.
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And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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I wasn't a great debater.
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It was cool to meet Cris Carter. That dude has some of the best hands to have played the game.
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I don't want to be any kind of producer at all - hands-on or otherwise! I feel producing is a very difficult job and creates ulcers! Maybe some people would like to have a certain amount of control; not me. It's too much stress and includes managing everybody's egos... handling my own is enough!
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'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.
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When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.
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Have fun, be active. Ride a bike instead of driving, for example.
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I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking through. And when they all were seated, a service, like a drum, kept beating, beating, till I felt my mind was going numb. And then I heard them lift a box and creak across my soul with those same boots of lead again, then space began to toll, as if the heavens were a bell and being were an ear, and I, and silence, some strange race wrecked, solitary, here. Just then, a plank in reason broke, and I fell down and down and hit a world at every plunge, and finished knowing then.
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Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.
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I know this is something that I'm saying to every fan out there and every person that thinks the world of the Redskins and pulls for them, ... I know a lot of people will disagree with this, and I understand that. For me personally, I felt like it was a decision I had to make.
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A military man can scarcely pride himself on having 'smitten a sleeping enemy'; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. I would rather you made your appraisal after seeing what the enemy does, since it is certain that, angered and outraged, he will soon launch a determined counterattack.
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Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.
