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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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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Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.
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I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They're my rock. These are people who knew me from the beginning, you know, as a loser in a 1972 Dodge Dart with the bumper literally duct-taped to the body.
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I have a love in my life. It makes me stronger than anything you can imagine.
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Do the best you can, and then to hell with it!
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If you were to sell your character, would you get full retail or would it go for a bargain-basement price?
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When a story is flying along, and I'm so into it that my 'real' world goes away, it can feel magical. I cease to be, my desk and computer ceases to be, and I am my character in his world. Psychologists call this a 'flow state,' and it's better than publication, money, awards, fame.
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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
