Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being.Simone de Beauvoir
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
L. Sprague de Camp -
'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.
Garry Shandling -
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
Harold Pinter -
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
Washington Irving -
I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.
Salma Hayek
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If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
S. I. Hayakawa -
A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
Dalton Trumbo -
My father managed shopping malls when I was a kid, and my high school job was to dress up in an elf costume and take photos of kids sitting on Santa Claus's lap.
Karen Duffy -
I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
Famke Janssen -
I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader.
Karin Slaughter -
At least I can say that I'm honest.
Adam Lambert
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Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
Jackie Chan -
I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
Igor Stravinsky -
I've never been one to dwell on reverses.
Sam Walton -
A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country.
L. Ron Hubbard -
Spring is here my friends and a new chapter begins.
Jack Layton -
Life is nothing unless death has been faced down.
David Gemmell
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When we don't enjoy what we do, we only nick the surface of our potential.
Dennis Wholey -
We stand on our songs and we stand on the songs that we wrote for other people. That gives us a higher platform.
Valerie Simpson -
'Well,' said Dr Jochum, 'you are like all reformers. You like to reform the world because it is easier than trying to reform yourself.'
Malcolm Bradbury -
Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste, Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste.
John Heywood -
Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being.
Simone de Beauvoir