Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
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A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play 'Blue Moon' in a hotel lobby.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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We don't have to look back at da Vinci's work and Albert Einstein's work and Mozart's work. We're actually living in the time period that David Lynch is creating his art. We're so lucky.
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.
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There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.
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There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's The Simpsons, and then there's everything else.
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People have a good time with all the catch phrases.
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There must be a thread in everything I choose to take on, and I can't say it's a calculated thread, but I think you end up doing the work that's resonating with you.
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Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.
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Queen Latifah has been a huge part of my career. She has been a huge, huge part of my career since the very beginning.
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For me, the whole idea of performance is not being self-aware, and then sort of just experiencing.
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I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.
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I'd always enjoyed acting at high school, and I was all lined up to do an honours degree course in biology at a Canadian university, and at the eleventh hour the drama teacher I had said, 'You know, you'll get a lot more girls if you go into acting,' and that kinda sold it.
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
