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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The mountains dwindled away into hills covered with a dark, stunted scrub. Beyond them the land flattened out to the horizon, a treeless immensity of white and gray-green, a spongy mossiness flecked with a million icy ponds. The wind blew, sometimes hard, sometimes harder.
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All this breathing in Never breathing out.
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You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.
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Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.
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Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.
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Sometimes it just happens - to the wrong people at the wrong time.
