Vita Sackville-West Quotes
Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.
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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.
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It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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Being on a lunchbox was awesome, and being on a thermos was pretty cool, too.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
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People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.
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I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'.
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For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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There's no way I'm going to stand up for bad ingredients. We love seasonal ingredients. It's a false dichotomy to say that modern cooking is at odds with that, but some people want to have a great ingredient and no technique.
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The more I got into presenting things to the world, the further it was taking me away from what I was, which was someone who just used to sit quietly at a piano and sing and play. It became very important to me not to lose sight of that.
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
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What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a comeback, and normally that begins with somebody saying, 'I want to do something to help people. I want to do something to help the lepers in the Third World. I want to do something to help abandoned wives in India.'
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It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.
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The camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to conjure visions of the future. But by the time the image reaches the eyes of the viewer, it belongs to the past, taking on the status of something retrieved.
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There aren't a lot of Portuguese models, so everyone always expects me to be Brazilian because of my features, sometimes even American, as I have a slight American accent when I speak English.
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A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.
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One who loves God retains this humility at all times, not with weariness and struggle, but with pleasure and gladness.
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Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.
