Ivy Compton-Burnett Quotes
Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.
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Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
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A closed mind is a dying mind.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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I was 16 when I auditioned for the series '8 Simple Rules.' They cast the kids first.
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The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.
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A million years went by quick.
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When you boil down the real facts and statistics of what carbon dioxide is doing to this planet... to not feel like you have to do something... I don't think you're human.
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I think sometimes when you want attention, you can wear sunglasses, and people are like, 'Who is that?'
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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
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Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers.
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The importance to the nation of a generously adequate food supply for the coming year cannot be overemphasized, in view of the economic problems which may arise as a result of the entrance of the United States into the war.
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I'm not usually absolutely speechless.
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Because you can't change results - I would change my losses, and I would definitely like to see on-court coaching.
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The characters, to me, in 'Homeland' are not one note in any way.
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How do you walk from one place to another? What makes you want to walk someplace? Any place that you want to get out of your car and walk is a good place by definition.
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I had enough brain to live a stupid life.
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In the quiet hours, in the heat of battle, and through the hazards of the day; in times of temptation, of sorrow, of peace and of blessing, let us pray always, both alone, and with our families gathered around us, with gratitude for the blessings of life, for understanding of its problems, and for strength to endure to the end.
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People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.
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The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.
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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
