Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
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We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
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I personally love the record-making more than the actually performing and travelling. It's funny, the drastic shift in lifestyle that comes with it. It certainly satisfies my more adventurous side, but it leaves little time for contemplation and all of that.
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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.
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I like my world to be calm.
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Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
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One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
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I think there's a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down.
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Life is not a competition with others. In its truest sense it is a rivalry with ourselves. We should each day seek to break the record of our yesterday. We should seek each day to live stronger, better, truer lives; each day to master some weakness of yesterday; each day to repair past follies; each day to surpass...ourselves. And this is but progress.
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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I think rock 'n' roll would become exponentially, considerably more difficult to perform past about 65.
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You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.
