Iris Murdoch Quotes
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The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
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I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.
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I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie.
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God's words first... obey God's law first before considering the laws of man.
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Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
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I'd be lying if I didn't say there were days when I went back and said, 'I wish I'd done this. I should have done that. I handled this the wrong way.' But it's always in the motivation of getting better. I've never once looked in the mirror and said, 'Oh boy, can't do this one.'
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I would love to have twins - a girl and a boy - but who knows if that would happen. It would be my ideal situation. Wham, bam, be done with it.
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I think that's a huge theme in superhero books across the board: When you have this massive power, how do you use it responsibly? When do you intervene? Those are the big questions.
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We're very much in the people business in that there are two important groups you have to work with: customers and employees.
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I can be staggeringly evangelical. That's just my personality.
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Stuart was not dismayed by his sexual feelings about the boy.
