Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
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If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
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Our past is who we are, and death is one of our experiences. I lost my husband a long time ago, but it's always yesterday.
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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
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While I love musical theater, it wasn't the right fit for me. It's so competitive, and I was at such a disadvantage, having started performing when I was 17.
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A woman who tells her age tells everything, and I won't tell it.
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My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.
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It made the most sense for us to select Sam Bowie. It was almost a no-brainer.
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Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.
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Sometimes you have to shove all the surface stuff to the side in order to see what's underneath.
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Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.
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To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether.
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I can't stand it when people say, "If you're writing a novel, you should read this and that." Because it's like giving someone another person's prescription. How do you know that's what they need?
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In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast.
