Ngaio Marsh Quotes
I always, by an involuntary act of defensiveness, return to my everyday self: so, I find, have I withdrawn from writing about experiences which have most closely concerned and disturbed me. I have been deflected by my own reticence.
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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I do not have any pets. We travel too much.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
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Using MO to link crimes can be problematic.
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My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
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I adore anything Michael Alexis writes.
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There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.
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I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. Then I got into TV.
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In America, Miramax are using a 'New York Times' review that said 'Trainspotting' makes 'Kids' look like a 1960s episode of 'Sesame Street.'
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Inspiration is easy. The hard part is getting the inspiration onto 300 pages in an interesting, cohesive, easy-to-read but hard-to-forget story.
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I've seen my own kids go through their own ups and downs, and as a mother, you want to make it better.
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I always, by an involuntary act of defensiveness, return to my everyday self: so, I find, have I withdrawn from writing about experiences which have most closely concerned and disturbed me. I have been deflected by my own reticence.
