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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We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God.
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Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.
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I have this feeling of wending my way or plundering through a mysterious jungle of possibilities when I am writing. This jungle has not been explored by previous writers. It never will be explored. It's endlessly varying as we progress through the experience of time. These words that occur to me come out of my relation to the language which is developing even as I am using it.
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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'
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Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.
