Edith Sitwell Quotes
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A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
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Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.
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I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
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I always wear blue shirts and I like wine or purple ties.
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From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of all things human and divine.
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The principal source of the harm done by the State is the fact that power is its chief end.
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Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.
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A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan.
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My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.