Vita Sackville-West Quotes
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I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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Cryptocurrencies in general give us a stable medium through which we can communicate our information about values and prices in a way that no government mandarin can distort or usurp. For the predators who have used our central institutions to predate on the rest of humanity, it's a very bad development.
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There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.
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I don't like to sell my finest pieces.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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I always thought I should be treated like a star.
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It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people.
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If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
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If people still trust me with a funny line, then that is fine. If that is what gets me work.
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Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.
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Every home that I have is paid for, every car that I have is paid for, and I am a hundred-million-dollar man. I mean, this is the truth; it's not a lie.
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When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.
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The nature of Buddhism, as I understand it, is to believe that we are all pure and radiant at our core. And yet we see around us so much evidence that people are not acting from a place of purity and radiance.
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I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.
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I don't think I could ever really be with a woman because that's a lot of... Yeah, there's a lot of estrogen and I'm a lot to deal with when it's that time of the month, so I can't imagine it times two.
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It was endlessly entertaining, watching people beat each other up. All the little kids in the neighborhood would come and watch... and then we'd beat them up as well.
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April, the angel of the months, the young love of the year.
