Clarence Douglas Dillon Quotes
You don't have to stay trapped in your thoughts just because you think them.
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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I was 47 when I got pregnant. I'd been trying for a couple of years and thought it would never happen.
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I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
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I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I'm less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations.
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I feel like fashion should not happen in the morning.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.
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Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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I hardly ever go to the movies.
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
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If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.
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For me, it's an experiment to see what people are gonna think of it.
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It's cool cause my sister is older than me and we went to the same high school, so by the time I got to high school, I got the lowdown on all the teachers and everything.
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I find that, for me, personally - and this is in everyday life - if I'm not growing, if I can't be stimulated in a conversation, then I am bored. And I'm not good when I'm bored.
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I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.
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I'm not afraid to have my music digestible by different ages.
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Of course all novelists are egomaniacs and want to draw everyone to their fold just like any other preacher. The snake-oil peddler, the false prophet, all of this is fascinating to me. But I certainly hope that I'm more humane than that.
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We become sphynxes, though fake, up to the point we no longer know who we are.
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I'm a conservative Republican, and I'm not a member of the Tea Party Caucus, but I have very good friends that are.
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You don't have to stay trapped in your thoughts just because you think them.
