Mercedes McCambridge Quotes
I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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It's an evolution. The same team doesn't always dominate, and it goes in cycles.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
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The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
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It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
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Since the commencement of 1830, I had been living with Mr. Joseph Travis, who was to me a kind master and placed the greatest confidence in me; in fact, I had no cause to complain of his treatment of me.
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The trend in entrepreneurship is up, but an entrepreneur's ability to hire is down.
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I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.
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I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.
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When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would present themselves to my imagination; and whenever an opportunity occurred of looking at a book, when the school-children were getting their lessons, I would find many things that the fertility of my own imagination had depicted to me before.
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My life experiences have helped me to be less fearful. In politics, that has allowed me to take on issues sooner rather than later.
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Not many players would turn down a chance to play for Real Madrid and Barcelona, as they're right at the top the tree in terms of football.
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All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.
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Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.
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All my life, I've been a type 1 diabetic. I've always taken life day by day.
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I dropped out of college and ended up making this feature film I wrote when I was 19 with some friends. It was terrible.
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It cuts like a knife, but it feels so right.
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A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care.
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In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.
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I have a lot of respect for my birth mother I know she must have had a lot of love for me to want to give what she felt was a better chance.
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I'm no diva but I can be annoying in a recording studio. Of course I try to be a diva in terms of confidence of performance and owning a song but I've never behaved like one in terms of the negative connotations of the word.
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I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.
