Jean Stafford Quotes
For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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The interweb's got a weird vibe.
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I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.
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I don't like when I watch a fight in a movie that's perfectly worded and very articulate. If you were able to be that composed, you wouldn't be fighting! Fighting in real life is sloppy.
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My mother gave me a Muslim name because she "was fascinated by Arabia,"
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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In my hometown there is a pub named after me - The Frome Flyer on Jenson Avenue. How cool is that?!
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For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.
