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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The watchers below pulled in their breath all at once. The air felt suddenly shared. The man above was a word they seemed to know, though they had not heard it before.
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And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.
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The United Kingdom and the European Union will remain indispensable partners of the United States even as they begin negotiating their ongoing relationship to ensure continued stability, security and prosperity for Europe, Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the world.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie. That's the first thing. You want to do it.
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Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things were very, very front-burner in my childhood, as were the ideas of working for peace and if you have more than you need, then you share it with people who don't.
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Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.
