Helen Gurley Brown Quotes
After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
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Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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I try to stay consciously away from the roles of the girl who throws herself at the leading man, because I've done it a lot and I want to move on. I ticked that box.
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The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.
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Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
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'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar to readers.
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In the end, our minds and their ability to create new ideas are the ultimate source of all human wealth. That's a resource nearly without limit.
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I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone.
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What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place.
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I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.
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If it's boring, then it's tiring.
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Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.
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I like to go on the court and have a little bit of information about my opponent.
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I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or three years, at the end I have a book.
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Steve Coogan does something for me. He is so naughty, but I quite fancy him.
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I was supposed to be adopted when I was five, but then my adoption was pushed back by two years.
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Rooting for the Cubs is not easy, but the best things in life never are.
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I'm not crazy about oysters and offal and brains and stuff like that. It's vegetables that I really like. I worked in the River Cafe restaurant when it first opened, and I used to eat the leftover vegetables on the plates. They were so delicious.
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We are at a point where we may see abrupt and irreversible changes due to climate change.
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Poverty is not just a sad accident, but it's also a result of the fact that some people make a lot of money off low-income families and directly contribute to their poverty.
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When I write that I've known about something for a long time, that's not a boast. That's a confession. It's me acknowledging that I have withheld something important from the public.
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After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
