Wallis Simpson Quotes
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I don't really like to work with actors that work a lot and are very well established already. In a way, I like to nurture talent and have it burst on the scene.
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
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Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.
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With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
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Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football - referees included - are always under terrific scrutiny.
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Biggie has been the logo for success, the logo for doing it big - from popping champagne, the ladies, the fashion.
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On the one blind date I went on, I had a backup. If I texted you the code word, you call and say my dogs are sick.
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Modernity is the most transient of qualities.
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No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
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It is not sufficient for the young to devote their enthusiasm, their courage, their ambition, their self-sacrifice to the great ideas of the time; the young must not only preserve but increase their powers if they are to be really equal to their eternal task: that of drawing the age in advance.
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My feeling or philosophy is closer to Taoism and Zen Buddhism, 'cause it's the most practical.
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You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.
