Virginia Gildersleeve Quotes
It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest social rank.
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
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I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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My style's not for everyone - I'm an extremist.
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I've fondly dreamed of becoming the face of an important brand since I was a child, in the same way that others dream of becoming an astronaut. I dreamed of this as I first and foremost dreamed of becoming an actor and would look up at these huge posters of celebrities while driving along motorways or crossing under bridges.
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Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.
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I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.
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My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.
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I'm obsessed with being human.
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I want to go to college for literature. I want to be a writer. I mean, I love what I do, but its not all I want to do-be a professional liar for the rest of my life.
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The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and the solidity and validity of these words is in the care of the damned and despised litterati...when their very medium, the very essence of their work, the application of word to thing goes rotten, i.e. becomes slushy and inexact, or excessive or bloated, the whole machinery of social and of individual thought and order goes to pot.
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No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
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My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions.
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'The Daily Show,' at its core, is the answer to the nightly news.
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It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest social rank.
