Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I realize that things happen for a reason.
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When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
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Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I guess I crave stability.
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In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
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I decided to be heterosexual because I felt like that's the life God intended me to live.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point that always nagged, even if you couldn't admit to yourself that it did.
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I've always loved the underdog characters.
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Of course, the slightest little mistake on the wire will deprive me of my life, so in that sense, yes, it is a dangerous profession. You have to pay attention; if not, you will lose your life.
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Life is like that, don’t you think? Mostly bad choices. All you can do is keep your balance between them.
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Hitting Ali in the body or on the arms was like hitting a piece of cement.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
