Vita Sackville-West Quotes
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I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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My mom grew up in a strict Catholic family and moved to New York and became part of the Warhol factory.
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I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.
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I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.
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I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
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My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
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Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
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Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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The eyes get lost in 3-D. With 3-D, your eyes are looking for the plane of focus, right? And the problem is, when you do quick cuts, your eyes can't find it.
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Stuart Blumberg is suddenly an authority on the modern - or, dare we say, post-modern - family, thanks to the critically-acclaimed debut of his new film, 'The Kids Are All Right.'
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My fans know the name Larry Holmes and that he always gave it his all.
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I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.
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I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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I worked with James Orange and Hosea Williams as a teenager, and he's portrayed in the movie by Wendell Pierce. So, for me to be able to come in, 20 years after working with them as a teenager, and to portray Reverend James Orange in 'Selma' is mind-blowing.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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A functionary, when he really is nothing more than a functionary, is really a very dangerous gentleman.
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I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.
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O magic sleep! O comfortable bird,That broodest o’er the troubled sea of the mindTill it is hush’d and smooth!
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I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
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Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.
