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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The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.
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The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.
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Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators!
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Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic
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When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.
