Lady Margaret Sackville Quotes
When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.
Quotes to Explore
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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You can't build another bridge that's so close to ours. It's stupid.
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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.
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The guest to me was always paramount.
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It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.
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You see a lot of finesse players in our league who have a lot of success.
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I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.
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Why would some all powerful being create creatures capable of reason and then demand that they act in a manner contrary to their creation?
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Could any symbol be any more appropriate of the ambiguity of human transformation? What mushroom is it that grows at the end of history? Is it Stropharia cubensis, or is it the creation of Edward Teller? This is an unresolved problem.
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When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.
