Stevie Smith Quotes
Cry pretty, pretty, pretty and you'll be able Very soon not even to cry pretty And so be delivered entirely from humanity This is prettiest of all, it is very pretty.
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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
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I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.
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I'm such a fan of Daniel Waters, who wrote the script, and also Mark Waters, his brother, who directed. 'Vampire Academy' has, I think, an iconic director.
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More than 25 miles off the coast of Massachusetts and only 14 miles long, Nantucket is, as Herman Melville wrote in 'Moby-Dick,' 'away off shore.'
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The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
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It's always great to visit Taranaki; it's beautiful, and I've caught some great waves there.
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Although, you know it's been really nice to wear the Olympic kit, I'm looking forward to wearing non-sports, feminine clothes.
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L.A. is my office. I come here for work and work only.
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A relatively young woman is perceived as younger than a relatively young man.
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Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.
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The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.
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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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I've been looking for a woman to save my lifeNot to beg or to borrowA woman with the feeling of losing once or twice.
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For me, 'I Am Woman' is all about transition. I turned 21 in December, so I'm not completely grown up yet but I'm not a little girl anymore. Just in that in-between stage. The song is everything I have ever heard a woman say. I loved this song for me and every young lady, girl and woman to be able to feel empowered in being female.
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From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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…it was a cardinal rule in the East not to show one’s true feelings.
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Through the art of affirmative prayer the limitless resources of the Spirit are at my command. The power of the Infinite is at my disposal.
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I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions.
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Cry pretty, pretty, pretty and you'll be able Very soon not even to cry pretty And so be delivered entirely from humanity This is prettiest of all, it is very pretty.
