Penelope Fitzgerald Quotes
There are dilettantes in human relationships just as there are, let's say, in politics.
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To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
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I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.
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Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
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When someone who loves and cares about me compliments me, I feel more glamorous than when the flashbulbs are going off on the red carpet.
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By, say, 2025-2030, I expect that there will be multiple jurisdictions that allow the tokenization of virtually any scarce resource, all the way down to personal tokens.
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God's sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it.
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I remember reading 'The Hobbit' on a car trip from Ohio to Mississippi and getting out at a rest-stop in Mississippi and feeling jet-lagged at my return from Middle-earth.
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Certainly situation comedy is harder than people who are good at it make it look, but it's fun to do something different.
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If I had done a Disney movie nobody would care. They would not care. You may say oh, I grew up and I loved that movie, that was really super, but you wouldn’t care. People really will stop and talk to me about deeper issues, which I am excited to participate in.
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And all I wanna do is let it be and be with you and watch the wind blow by.And all I wanna see is you and me go on forever like the clear blue sky.Slowly, there's only you and I.And all I wanna do is watch the wind blow by.
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I was really into punk. I was 11 years old; I had a blue mohican.
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I promised my dad before he passed away that I would take care of the family.
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The need for reflection and restraint of power is what led Louis Freeh to order that all new agent classes visit the Holocaust Museum here in Washington so they could see and feel and hear in a palpable way the consequences of abuse of power on a massive, almost unimaginable scale.
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I've learned from experience you just never know what happens in life.
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If God exists, what objection can he have to saying so?
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I think the most challenging part of being a performer is just making sure that people know that when you get up there every night, it's unique and that you care.
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Well, I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.
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Is there anyone out there who is the next Steve Jobs? I think Jeff Bezos is pretty close. He is very smart. He is extremely creative. He has completely reinvented the way in which commerce is done online.
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He was growing up. Soon he would be a man. He wondered what that would mean. Surely he could not have more required of him as an adult that had been required of him as a child. There could not be more.
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There are dilettantes in human relationships just as there are, let's say, in politics.
