Yul Brynner Quotes
Simple femininity is the most important thing about a woman, and it is a quality a great many women are in jeopardy of losing. Women are being emancipated out of their femininity in this modern age.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.
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It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it.'
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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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You just make sure you don't screw it up. It's going to work as long as you don't mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy.
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One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.
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If there's an incursion I don't go out of the house.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
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I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
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I worry that when educational counselors and teachers call in families with concerns about a child having a learning disability, we aren't always looking at the complete picture.
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That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless.
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Looking back, I am grateful for so many friends who helped me in my youth to gain a testimony of the restored Church of Jesus Christ. First, I exercised simple faith in their testimonies, and then I received the divine witness of the Spirit to my mind and to my heart.
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My life has changed because somebody fed my family on Thanksgiving when I was eleven years old. It wasn't the food that changed me, it was the fact that a stranger cared. That's what changed my life. That made me the person I am today and have been for the last 37 years. All that came out of that, that simple act of getting a result.
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Simple femininity is the most important thing about a woman, and it is a quality a great many women are in jeopardy of losing. Women are being emancipated out of their femininity in this modern age.
