Jane Gardam Quotes
I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.
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When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.
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With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.
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A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all.
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Trump can spend virtually an unlimited amount of his own money on this election, which makes him unlike any of the other candidates in the race. So those who oppose him will have to work very hard to make sure he doesn't win.
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A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.
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I think it would help tremendously to have a senator that knows where jobs come from, that knows how to create them, that knows how to bring them back and, importantly, knows what it means to manage billions of dollars' worth of expenses and cut billions of dollars' worth of expenses.
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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
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I don't run the triathlons anymore like I used to. I do leg work on the machines and do the bike. I'm not as strong as I used to be, but I'm still good.
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To be a good model, you have to be very smart.
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You want to reach people, but you also want to reach them in the most authentic way. You now have a mass market and an audience that's listening, but they're in love with a song that means absolutely nothing to you.
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Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.
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We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.
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Fans are awesome.
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Well, once I did 'Grease,' everyone was offering me studio pictures in a similar vein – you know, popcorn movie.
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I love seeing the fans of the music that I make.
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
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The biggest share of U.S. exports to the six CAFTA nations is not the traditional job-creation kind. These are products that are not consumed in the purchasing nations.
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In a quantum universe, magic is not the exception but the rule.
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I would do anything and I will continue to do anything I can to stop the train wreck that is Obamacare.
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I sat for hours cross-legged, and cross-tempered, upon my silks meditating upon the queer freaks chance plays upon us poor devils of mortals.
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When Shana Alexander interviewed me for Life magazine in 1952, she gave up after 4,000. At one time or another, I've worked for every studio in Hollywood, for almost every director with most of the actors and actresses.
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I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.
