Vita Sackville-West Quotes
I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is a truism when said, but anything but a truism when daily observed. Nothing shows up the difference between the thing said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
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I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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We think that in Mexico, online trading of shares and financial instruments is not going to be as important as it is in the U.S. On days that there is a banking holiday in the U.S., you hardly see any movement here on the stock exchange.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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The net worth of the 358 richest people in the world was then found to be 'equal to the combined income of the poorest 45 per cent of the worlds population - 2.3 billion people.'
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I hope for my children, and for all Mexicans, that they can be proud to be Mexican, proud of their heritage, and proud that they have a peaceful, inclusive, vibrant country that is playing a role in the world.
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I am always loath to use the world 'evil,' but if 'evil' is the reverse of 'live,' Guy de Rothschild is thoroughly evil. He stands for the opposite of life.
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I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them.
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No matter how successful you become... there's always that sense that you could be better.
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I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is a truism when said, but anything but a truism when daily observed. Nothing shows up the difference between the thing said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
