Madeleine de Souvre Quotes
When people reproach us, they only increase their own failings even as they are disclaiming them.
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Age for me is just a number.
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
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I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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During a carnival, men put masks over their masks.
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I want to be able to touch people's heart through my music. I want to bring a smile on every face. In my own humble, small way, I want to touch lives.
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I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth
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When people reproach us, they only increase their own failings even as they are disclaiming them.
