Matthew Arnold Quotes
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.
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I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russian's, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth.
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The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
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Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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India needs to sustain its high growth rate.
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I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
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In Holland, we have a saying: 'A knife cuts on two sides.' With the rubber duck, I'm trying to show people what they haven't been seeing in their public space. When the rubber duck is there and when it's gone, you know.
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I think hitting's just repetition. The more you hit, the better you're gonna get.
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They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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Week by week my orders grew, and the flat of the old mill soon assumed a very busy aspect.
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When I'm designing, I'm thinking about what it would be like to wear that piece.
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L.A.'s been my home.
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I have no nerves at all about singing or playing stuff... and if I can have a cup of tea nearby, then I'm very much at home.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
