Judith McNaught Quotes
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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I've been around the bend in corporations.
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My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.
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I am not called Cugel the Clever for nothing.
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I am Providence, and Providence is myself-together, indissolubly as one, we stand thro' the ages; a fixt monument set aeternally in the shadow of Durfee's ice-clad peak!
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If neither love nor pain Will ever touch thy heart, Then only God's in thee, And then in God thou art
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We were great mates. We didn't really go out together because we never really had the time to go out. But we were with each other all the time anyway because we were working all the time. We could sit down and talk for hours, and we still can. We just understood each other.
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At the time, I was living pretty close to Ground Zero. I had to grab some necessary equipment, put it in my backpack, and flee the immediate proximity on my bike.
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Getting old is better than being young. You can do what you want to do.
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I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.
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I was hugely formed by stories I was told as a child whether that was in a book, the cinema, theatre or television and probably television more than any medium is what influenced me as a child and formed my response to literature, story-telling and, therefore, the world around me.
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Sometimes it just happens - to the wrong people at the wrong time.
