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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I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards.
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We have to start making sure that churches start to talk about... black queerness in a way that's affirming. Because a lot of young black men are in the church, and that's where they start to learn this self-hate behavior.
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Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me.
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That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.
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We look harder for flaws in a study when we don't agree with its conclusions.
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There are dilettantes in human relationships just as there are, let's say, in politics.
