Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a marriageless life, certainly a travelling life - I'm in awe of how much D.H. Lawrence managed to get around. But that's never been something I'm capable of doing.
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Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.
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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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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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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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My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
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I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
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We midwives and physicians have a lot to teach each other.
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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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The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.
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I don't own a scale, and Tao banned the word 'fat' from our house. If we eat too much, we say, 'I feel clogged up.'
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If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
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I'm a tour bus driver, and everywhere you go there's something describing the world's biggest whatever. I think this will be perfect for Bardstown.
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Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy.
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...love is never stationary.
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Comrades! The kulak uprising in your five districts must be crushed without pity. You must make example of these people. (1) Hang (I mean hang publicly, so that people see it) at least 100 kulaks, rich bastards, and known bloodsuckers. (2) Publish their names. (3) Seize all their grain. (4) Single out the hostages per my instructions in yesterday's telegram. Do all this so that for miles around people see it all, understand it, tremble, and tell themselves that we are killing the bloodthirsty kulaks and that we will continue to do so ...Find tougher people.
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God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her
