Mabel Osgood Wright Quotes
in the city at best one lives the life of others, the life of the shop, the street, the crowd, while in the country one must live one's own life.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
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Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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When I was young, I couldn't imagine women of 60 falling in love. For one thing, people used to stay married; they weren't out in the jungle, searching for romance. Besides, these women just looked so ancient - permed hair, beige cardis.
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I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.
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More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.
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No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.
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When you live on your own for a long time, however, your personality changes because you go so much into yourself you lose the ability to be social, to understand what is and isn't normal behavior. There is an entire world inside yourself, and if you let yourself, you can get so deep inside it you will forget the way to the surface. Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.
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in the city at best one lives the life of others, the life of the shop, the street, the crowd, while in the country one must live one's own life.
