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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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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Shout out to my boy Guwop. We came in the game, and we learned from the best.
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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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There are a lot of good actresses out there.
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I'm such a grandma. I don't tweet; I don't have a Facebook page.
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You can't pay for healthcare if we're sending a trillion dollars a year to dictators.
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I think the world is very much embracing this whole concept of musicians going out and playing their instruments and playing music for music as opposed to music that has something to do with some form of image or imagery.
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The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.
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We are but phantoms ... and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw that eddy in the wind; the days pass, use and wont carry us through as a train carries the shadow of its lights.
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You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. You work at it, and you get better. It's like anything: You sit there and do it every day, and eventually you get good at it.
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It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
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It's hard for decent people to stay angry at someone who has burst into tears, which is why it is often a good idea to burst into tears if a decent person is yelling at you.
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No coffee is ever quite as good as it smells.
