Ottessa Moshfegh Quotes
In my own experience, I've found that it's very difficult to make peace with women. We tend to be competitive and feel angry.
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Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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I've always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward, to open you up to new worlds.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
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And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
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I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.
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It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.
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It's the love you have for yourself that's most important.
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I drew a line for myself. I never dated anyone that could hire me when I was first in Hollywood, and I think that kept me focused on what I was there to do and how I wanted to go about it. I took it a step at a time.
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Policy is about real people and real stories, and sometimes we forget that.
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Brer Fox, he lay low.
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Hope is born of participation in hopeful solutions.
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In my own experience, I've found that it's very difficult to make peace with women. We tend to be competitive and feel angry.
