Penelope Lively Quotes
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I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
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'Salaryitis' is when you become so accustomed to that salary that you no longer have the gumption to pull out of the rut and strike out on your own. It destroys the nerve of ambitious, imaginative men, and bowing to it has meant sure defeat for more people than any other sickness, mental or physical.
E. Joseph Cossman
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
Edgar Allan Poe
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
W. Edwards Deming
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
Zach Galifianakis
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It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.
Adam Brody
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As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version of Fred Astaire, and he was amazing as well.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy
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I'm never going to do something that I don't want to do, because I've been given the opportunity to not have to do that.
Maisie Williams
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The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next to Elvis Costello.
Dan Hill
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There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot.
Octavio Paz
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The air which is struck with most swiftness by the movable thing is compressed to the greatest degree in itself.
Leonardo da Vinci
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With respect to drugs, you know, there are a lot of organizations, including an enormous budget and an army at the federal government level that tries to deal with the drug problem.
Burke Marshall
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We are increasingly offered a diet in which sensation, not story, is king.
Beeban Kidron
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I hate Botox, but a fabulous-looking friend of mine told me her secret was this gadget that uses electrical impulses to tone your facial muscles. It works!
Marie Helvin
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We drink one another's health and spoil our own.
Jerome K. Jerome
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We are splintering what was the 'camera' and its functionality - lens, sensors, and processing - into distinct parts, but, instead of lenses and shutters, software and algorithms are becoming the driving force.
Om Malik
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A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I married her.
Peter Capaldi
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If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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My own laugh is the real thing and I've had it all my life.
Phyllis Diller
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The mayor has got to work closely with a wide variety of people, his city council, state legislature, governor, business community, labor community, president and the congress in order to be able to do this.
Marc Morial
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I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.
Story Musgrave
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These pop songs almost feel like tabloid journalism, in a way. It's c**p that people seem to like. And I don't know if it has meaning. I don't know if one of the pop songs of the summer has any fibre in it. People are consuming it, and is it healthy?... Maybe there's some healthy property or some restorative property that I'm not receiving. It seems like it has a really high fructose content.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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When I draw, I rule the world.
Mort Walker
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I rather like getting away from fiction.
Penelope Lively
