Ninette de Valois Quotes
Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.
Ninette de Valois
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
A. S. Byatt
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
Abby Wambach
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
Candace Bushnell
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.
Nathan Myhrvold
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
Jack Nicholson
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If anyone can crack the publicity nut and figure out how to not come across hammy and contrived, I'd love to talk to them.
Gale Harold
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I am sort of an adventurer. I like to explore new places. I don't get to travel as often as I would like but I love it.
Edi Gathegi
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More than likely, mother would simply go enigmatic on him, give him one of her inscrutable smiles, and tell him that if he didn't already understand, he never would.
Orson Scott Card
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...most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute-though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only suffer, only die: the sum of all this passive misery is that great activity, War.
Randall Jarrell
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All is interrelated. Heaven and earth, air and water. All are but one thing; not four, not two and not three, but one. Where they are not together, there is only an incomplete piece.
Paracelsus
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My father is from Mississippi, and I heard stories of racial injustice my whole life.
Omar Benson Miller
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My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
Ray Charles
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The trouble with New York today is that it's lost its balance. I love the new, greener New York, but it takes all kinds of worlds to make a World.
Brian Cox
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It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua - that even in conditions of peace they don't seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous.
John Negroponte
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in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we call the real world, on the other hand, what usually counts is money, power, and public success.
Alison Lurie
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Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.
Ninette de Valois
