Helen Gurley Brown Quotes
you want to write a book for so many reasons ... The main reason ... is because it will make you well-known and beloved and popular and successful and famous and respected. You also write ... to make money, but that motivation is not first on the list.
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment.
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Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.
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I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!
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You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.
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Water really does great things for my skin.
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It's very rare that publications double their frequency.
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I'm a bit of a groupie.
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As chairman of the tax-writing House Ways & Means Committee, I continue to be inspired by President Reagan's 1985 national address to the American people as he challenged them to join him in boldly reforming the broken, complex tax code.
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The truth is, a large majority of the market, I'd guess 80 percent, doesn't know anything more than what they are sold.
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We know that working with small businesses to create jobs will do more to help our economy than anything the Obama Administration has tried to do.
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My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.
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In general, a writer would like to think that the best book that he has written is the book that he is writing, and the next book will be even better. Maybe if this is not true, it is very useful to keep the illusion alive.
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I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about Tolkien and Middle-earth, and I was like, 'Holy cow, what else am I missing out on?'
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Everywhere else, we are someone else, but at home, we remove our masks.
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It was the final session of the Council, the most essential, in which the Pope [Paul VI] was to bestow upon all humanity the teachings of the Council. He announced this to me on that day with these words, ‘I am about to blow the seven trumpets of the Apocalypse.’
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you want to write a book for so many reasons ... The main reason ... is because it will make you well-known and beloved and popular and successful and famous and respected. You also write ... to make money, but that motivation is not first on the list.
