Peter De Vries Quotes
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I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.
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Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.
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I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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I know some people are really comfortable with talking about their feelings and hopes and fears in public, but I'm not, and I don't think it's that extraordinary.
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See, as much as I love the game, golf was my vehicle to competition. And I love to compete.
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Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.
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The economic sense of possibility was so great when I was growing up that my parents had no question that I could do anything I wanted to do, even as a girl. I've always believed that the economics of a story intersects with the women's story - that stuff often happens at the time it happens because of the economy.
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If you're an actor, you have to look spiffing. But as the director, you don't need to look so glamorous.
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It takes 25 minutes to recover from a phone call or an e-mail, researchers have found, and yet the average person receives such an interruption every 11 minutes. Which means that we're never caught up; we're always out of breath, running behind.
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The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.
