Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.
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I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.
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I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven't had very good modeling in submission.
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When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.
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Something about 'Battlestar' that I didn't realize when I took the job was this whole bubble aspect of closing people in and seeing what they do.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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I can't even go down to the park anymore back home in Newark, New Jersey because my homeboys won't let me play. They tell me I'm too big time, too Hollywood, so they won't let me play out there no more.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
Garry Kasparov -
The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education.
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The worst hotels are any with a bad bed. I stayed in a hotel where they left cards telling me my enjoyment was of paramount importance. I should have written, 'Nice rooms, crap beds.'
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People here are not accustomed to seeing economic disputes settled with guns, but every economy runs on bullets, one way or another.
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Spirituality isn't a luxury. It's a must.
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Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.
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Going to my shows, it's like a religious experience, because you come out, you go in one person, you come out a different person.
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The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
