Lady Margaret Sackville Quotes
When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.
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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 never feel that you have fame. It's always in back of you.
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It is conceivable that at some point a truly united and powerful European Union could become a global political rival to the United States.
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I think that it would be good for people to realize and understand that they are doing something to deal with their pain and they aren't really going to be allowed to escape it and outrun it forever without side effects and certain consequences, as far as emotional and mental happiness and their physical condition. And I'd like people to be aware of those things.
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Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.
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Your greatest creation is your creative life. It's all in your hands. Rejection can't take it away; reviews can't take it away. The life you create for yourself as an artist, may be the only thing that's really yours. Create a life you can center yourself in calmly as you wait for your work to grow.
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When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.
