Ngaio Marsh Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.
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When someone asks me to do something, something new, something I don't know about, and if I haven't done it, I'll say yes. Just so I can try something new. You never know what you might like.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
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Having a conversation on a landline is more intimate than talking to someone in person. Your voices are so clear and close - you're in each other's heads.
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One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
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I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town.
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Shout out to my boy Guwop. We came in the game, and we learned from the best.
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You collect people to take with you. Some people change, other people don't... it's wonderful because I've met some incredible friends.
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One way to quantify the immigrant contribution to the overall economy is to measure their share of the U.S. economic output. One such examination for the years 2009-2011 found that immigrants contributed 14.7 percent of the total economic output.
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I was lucky enough to be able to grow and mature in a natural way as an actress.
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I've just learned how to put things into perspective and how to not be afraid of change while making decisions for myself. Also, asking for what I want and demanding what I need and being more confident in who I am and my ability.
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The American public highly overrates its sense of humor. We're great belly laughers and prat fallers, but we never really did have a real sense of humor. Not satire anyway. We're a fatheaded, cotton-picking society. When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.
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I love working with the youth. I am just as new to the gospel as lot of the kids, so I get just as much out of it as they do. Just being around them makes it one of the best callings.
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It's tough, but I have to remember that this is my passion and what I love, and that's how I keep the nerves from kicking in.
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Sex is glorious, it's how we all got here, and it's most people's favourite activity.
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No coffee is ever quite as good as it smells.
