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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It was hard to admit I had a problem when I still had money, property, prestige. How can I have a problem when I'm driving my new Mercedes, and it's paid for, and I have a house at Malibu?
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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 common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.
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Lately Marge's memory had grown weak, which is to say that it no longer contained the past time on deposit there, it was not strong enough to keep shut up the moments, the mornings and evenings, of her long life, its seals broke, and her memories ran together mingling, indistinguishable from the present. Her memory had grown incontinent with age.
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Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.
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I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.
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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
