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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The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
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I take enormous pleasure in seeing artists go out and sing my songs, or being in the corner of a festival, and everyone's singing along, and no one knows that you've written it.
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I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood.
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For my writing, and because I love talking to young women about life, I often asked them which would they rather have - a father in the house with them while growing up or a big butt? I tell you 86 percent of the time, girls say a big butt because it gets them further.
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The 'Black Album' was my real first introduction to Metallica. I was, like, 12 or 13 at the time. We were just getting into music, and I liked that album a lot, but it didn't necessarily change my life. But when I started picking up all the other Metallica records, 'Master of Puppets' was the one to me that stuck out with its songwriting.
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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.
