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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AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.
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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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Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.
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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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The friendship that we established early on in our marriage ... that carries you through tough times. That and a good sense of humor.
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There was scarcely a woman alive, it seemed, who could resist the urge to haul men down onto beds, car seats, kitchen floors, dining-room tables, park grass, parlor sofas, or packing crates, entwine warm thighs around them, and pant in ecstasy.
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Novembers days are thirty: Novembers earth is dirty, Those thirty days, from first to last; And the prettiest things on ground are the paths.... Few care for the mixture of earth and water, Twig, leaf, flint, thorn, Straw, feather, all that men scorn, Pounded up and sodden by flood, Condemned as mud.
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A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true.
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The first thing that will strike you as odd in Japan is how polite everyone is. Quite apart from the neverending bowing, they have obsequiousness down to an art that even the Chinese haven't mastered.
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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.
