James Russell Lowell Quotes
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I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
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I fell in love with doing yoga.
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When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.
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I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
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Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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Our whole wedding cost 180 bucks. Afterward, we re-heated lasagna for everyone and set off fireworks.
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The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
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Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.
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I'm bad; I wear trainers with everything: with a dress, skirts, all of that.
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I found that gloss paint suited me entirely, and its qualities still intrigue me. It's viscous and fluid and feels like a pool. It's highly reflective, which means there are layers of looking. You look at the picture, and you look at the surface, then you look at the reflection in the surface behind you, then you look at yourself.
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Our culture has long mistrusted the body. It's been seen as a confusing blend of God's handiwork and the devil's playground. It is, rather, a vortex of intelligence.
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I've never owned a pair of jeans, but I had a fantastic denim boiler-suit and it got a lot of wearing.
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I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.
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You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one.
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Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
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I have no qualm about the quality of the contemporary repertory.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Though old the thought and oft expressed,'Tis his at last who says it best.
