Jean Rhys Quotes
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Access to capital is critical for small business success and crucial to our economic recovery. Without access to capital, many small companies are not able to maintain operations, let alone expand and create new jobs.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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When a salesperson truly cares about you, trust forms, and you're more likely to buy, come back for repeat business, and refer new customers.
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I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
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In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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If there's a rift in the marriage - if someone feels neglected, frustrated, tempted by others, or unsure - then trouble can easily arise.
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Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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We grow small trying to be great.
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I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that stigma anymore. I think that what's harder is to be a woman, not to be a Latina.
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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Well, we could tell them that we're here on an archeological expedition.
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With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.
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When I saw Arnold say that he didn't need a union, because people in his position don't need it, I thought, this is a very naive way to present yourself. It's also kinda dumb about making movies. It doesn't realize how the union movement even helps the star.
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I think that a classic style in writing tends to remove the reader one level from the immediacy of the experience. For any normal reader, I think a colloquial style makes him feel more as though he is within the action, instead of just reading about it.
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I think a father is important for everyone. If you don't have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it's possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.
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Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
