Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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I do get approached occasionally, but not a ton. I'm unrecognizable because I'm coated in cat hair and sweat. And there's a sort of yeti quality to my presence... so I don't think that people can see the face.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.
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I'm not clever enough or aware enough to make a political movie.
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We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.
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I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.
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I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies.
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Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.
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You can go to a play that is enjoyable because it's funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play that's enjoyable because it's 'disturbing.'
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Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.
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One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.
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But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.
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India may be the soul of world cricket, but IPL is its commercial heart. Just as 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' changed the ground rules for quiz shows by injecting a massive dose of money into the equation, IPL has changed the dynamics of the cricket economy.
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My brother's a grip. My mom's a scriptwriter. My dad's a director. So it's like, at heart, I'm a below-the-line girl.
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I think that show will go down in history... people will scratch their heads and say 'How did this ever get on the air?' I mean, they finally have a planet that's populated with a black race and then they present them as savage warriors, and the men want the white girl!
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Good things come to those with no expectations.
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Have I done something for the general interest? Well then I have had my reward. Let this always be present to thy mind, and never stop doing such good.
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When you start out with goals - mine were to play polytonally and polyrhythmically - you never exhaust that. I started doing that in the 1940s. It's still a challenge to discover what can be done with just those two elements.
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Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.
