John Donne Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
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What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
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I hate parameters. They immediately alienate a bunch of people.
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British women can be slightly more reserved; Scottish are a little more crazy and fun, and American are more forthright, which I really enjoy.
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There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.
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In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
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I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
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I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that.
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My Plan A was to be a psychologist. I thought I would be a receptionist. I'm always middle of the road and very normal. I've always wanted a normal life, and this is what I got.
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I wake up at about the same time every day. I sleep well and wake without an alarm clock.
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You take an educated gamble. If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you're not doing your job.
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Then, much later, my next dream was to become an astronaut, and I was fortunate to realize that dream, also.
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You can't give a child too much love and if you love somebody, you can't be with them enough. There's no such thing.
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Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone.
