Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.' There are too many with that vocation. God would have had to love only me.
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
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Actually I dance really well on the floor.
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Don't be afraid to look silly.
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'No Bones' has some reverb that I kick around.
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I'm trying to talk about challenging subjects people might not like and trying to find relief as we discuss it.
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I love to conduct opera.
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Everything that's supposedly caused by stress, I tell people there's a Nobel Prize there if you find out the real cause.
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Throughout the day, my phone will variously chirp, burp and growl – it's like living with a velociraptor. The last time I went to try to shut it off, the thing bit me.
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A great leader also has the ability to make people an inch taller in his presence.
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I didn't do too well until my second year, when I realized that there were no right or wrong answers and that my professors were interested only in how well I could develop an argument.
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We're here for such a short period of time. Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.
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In the world of crime novels, the annual Audible Sounds of Crime awards are a pretty big deal, and I was thrilled to be shortlisted for my fifth novel in my bestselling Nic Costa series.
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I am Afrikaans. It wasn't ever something that I thought about.
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When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step or walk an extra mile. Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful.
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I never was interested in politics. I'm quite unable to work up any kind of belligerent feeling. Just as I'm about to feel belligerent about some country I meet a decent sort of chap. We go out together and lose any fighting thoughts or feelings.
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One of the great things that playwright A.R. Gurney does in 'Sylvia' is he gives language to the emotional gestures and energy that our dogs give to us when they're communicating.
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There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.' There are too many with that vocation. God would have had to love only me.
