John Cheever Quotes
When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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Islam means peace.
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In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.
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The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
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I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Inspire your children. I promise, your kids will think you're cool if you do this. They may not tell you that now, but they'll thank you later in life.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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When I represent Team GB, I never give less than 100 per cent. It is an absolute honour.
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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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I was lucky enough to have parents with a huge film library. My mum is a huge Bollywood film geek. When we were kids, we would watch Indian films with her as well as Chinese and Japanese films. My father was more into the classics, American films, and also Hitchcock films.
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We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
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I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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When you say 'revolution' when you have only men outside, you know that something is going wrong. I'm not like a hardcore feminist, but I think that one of the things that makes the society advanced is equality between men and women. If half of the society is oppressed by the other half, it's not fine.
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I was quite a shy person growing up, and drag was very much a shield for me to perform behind.
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My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
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I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination.
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When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.
