Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.
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What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
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Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
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I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.
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Sometimes, the most daunting thing about performing is making eye contact with your audience, so just look above them and at the corners of the room. Soon, you'll totally forget they're there.
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It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.
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I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew then, same as I know today, that I wasn't doing anything wrong. I think that before they died, they both felt very proud of me.
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A green economy begins to replace some of the clunking and chugging of ugly machines with the wise effort of beautiful, skilled people. That means more jobs.
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We now to peace and darknessAnd earth and thee restoreThy creature that thou madestAnd wilt cast forth no more.
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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
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Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.
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The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.
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Cloning interferon was not something I wanted to get into.
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One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.
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When it comes to beach volleyball, we're playing in 100-degree-plus weather.
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It's very hard to not give in, to sell your soul: to flatter a more experienced male person of power, a producer or director, in order to get what you want. You feel a pressure to flutter your eyelashes and flirt because you know that will work, and I think it's admirable to not do that.
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A Hank Cochran song in the studio is spiritual. It's like singing a hymn in a church.
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I've done a lot of shows over a long time, and I've lost my voice on plays before, and it's because I've been thinking closely about what I'm doing with my voice. Babies can scream all day and never lose their voice because they just mean it. As long as you mean it, then it carries you through. It's do it or don't.
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I'm the author of several books, including children's books.
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John Clellon Holmes … and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent Existentialism and I said, 'You know, this is really a beat generation' and he leapt up and said 'That's it, that's right!'
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Have confidence in your ability to do it right, and work hard to do the best possible job.
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In the winter I separate, in the summer I marry. It's been 15 years since I've been getting married every year.
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A politician weakly and amiably in the right is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong. You cannot, by tying an opinion, to a man's tongue, make him the representative of that opinion; and at the close of any battle for principles, his name will be found neither among the dead nor among the wounded, but among the missing.
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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
