Vita Sackville-West Quotes
Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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I don't know about you, but I think blankets are the best, especially your own personal blanket.
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Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
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May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs – let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.
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I've been into horses as far back as I can remember. There is a particular kind here in America called the 'quarter horse' that I'm very interested in.
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I wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we went to visit him on the farm, he had two really fun things: comedy albums and comic books.
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I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.
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I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper.
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This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs.
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I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my sisters, and I know the anger that she went through.
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When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
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People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
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You have to be able to sustain life. So moments are going to be lighter, but moments are also going to be heavier. I think just the understanding that life goes in a million different directions, and hopefully, if you find excitement by what these characters are experiencing and what they're living through, and you're impacted by them as human beings, then that's the sustainability of the show [This is Us].
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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I think I tried to steal a Mars bar once from a shop but then I went and put it back.
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Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.
