Helen Gurley Brown Quotes
After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
Quotes to Explore
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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 love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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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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I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.
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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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It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.
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In the life of any actor or actress, there is inevitably a time when they will be eligible to act in a Tom Stoppard play. He has written a lot, and they are revived often, and there are so many characters of different ages that it was more likely I'd end up in something of his than that I wouldn't.
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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'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.
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There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.
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For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.
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The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
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First, the year 2004, the year past, the Comptroller General of the United States, David A. Walker, said that arguably it was the worst year in American fiscal history, clearly setting our Nation on an unsustainable path.
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When I'm on stage, I feel alive. It's the most rewarding feeling an actor can live.
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I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias.
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To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers-- or both.
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After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
