Stephen Gardiner Quotes
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
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There are some parts of my life that are wonderful, and it's amazing to get to go to cool events and award shows and things like that, but I think the outside perception is that your life just changes overnight and you wear Dolce and Gabanna suits and drive a Mercedes. But life's just not like that.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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As a kid, I liked to write, but I didn't think that was a viable career choice. My dream, actually, was to be a white girl rapper and join Salt-N-Pepa - which obviously was a much more viable career choice.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part. They'll have someone handsome, not me.'
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The fall of 1912 my fielding was above the average, but my hitting was not so good. However, I was the talk of the town because of my peculiar way of catching a fly ball. They later named it the Vest-Pocket Catch.
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I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from the place where you write. The domestic rituals and details somehow kill the imagination. They kill the demon in me.
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I don't know any Beatles songs. My dad never listened to Elvis or Sting or Bowie. Any band name that's on a t-shirt, I probably won't know their music, like AC/DC or whatever. I don't know what that is. As a kid, I would sing along to artists like Tania Maria.
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There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
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But since he hadThe genuis to be loved, why let him haveThe justice to be honoured in his grave.
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By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By leaving, one gains a perspective, a distance of both space and time, which is essential for writing about family or home, in any case.
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The poor prayed to become rich, and the rich prayed to become richer.
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The sun is still there... even if clouds drift over it. Once you have experienced the reality of sunshine you may weep, but you will never feel ice about your heart again.
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When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit.
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Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
