H. L. Mencken Quotes
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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I bought a girl roses once.
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Turquoise is my birthstone; I'm a Sagittarius.
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I'm a firm believer in the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights. I don't think you should infringe on the type of weapon somebody should buy or the number of rounds in a high-capacity magazine.
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
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I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out of their head. All of those things I very carefully watched and absorbed, and so I guess I was studying my whole life, although not in any sort of conventional way.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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I received free health care.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
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I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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On June 22, 1793, Vancouver's Discovery and Chatham anchored in Klekane Inlet. Archibald Menzies, the ship's botanist, wrote that on the evening of June 28, they were visited by eight natives in two canoes who brought them two large salmon. This is the first known published encounter with the Haisla people.
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Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.
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It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.
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Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.
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I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.
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It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.
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The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
