Ursula Hegi Quotes
A perfectly happy marriage? There is no such thing. There are strong marriages that can survive problems, but happiness is such a brief condition, interrupted by difficulties and plain, boring routine.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.
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I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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When I first read the script for 'A Little Chaos,' I just loved reading it, as it is a really lovely, accessible, contemporary period film.
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You do what is manageable, and you do it well rather than trying to do a thousand things just a little bit OK.
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As a child, I had the opportunity to meet the captain onboard a British Airways flight. It was so exciting to see the cockpit and controls. I was in awe of the captain, and he stamped my log book, which I still have to this day.
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Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.
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If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'
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To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
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I was the first person in the world to audition for 'The Hobbit'. The casting director told me that when I went in. That's a lot of pressure, isn't it? The first person in the world.
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So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.
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My real heroes have always been sportswriters.
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Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than the robber-chief.
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It was a tough night for us. We can't make any excuses. They were better than us tonight and deserved to win. Considering what all we have been through this year, I am happy with where we are at. Our kids will be okay.
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Poverty is a state of mind.
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History shows that you can't - you can't have security in Southeast Asia without security in Northeast Asia. It's just the reality.
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I really rebel against authority.
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A perfectly happy marriage? There is no such thing. There are strong marriages that can survive problems, but happiness is such a brief condition, interrupted by difficulties and plain, boring routine.
