Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art - sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts - as inseparable components of a new architecture.
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
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I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.
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I have to clean my room and unload the dishwasher, wash the pans, and feed the dogs.
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If you have drive and energy, everything is possible.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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During the holiday season, it's easy to forget that sometimes the best gift of all is simply the gift of time. I can't think of anything a writer would appreciate more than being given time and space to work.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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I was involved in a bunch of school activities - I was a cheerleader, I was on the chess team, I was vice president of my class.
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You could give the best audition ever and not get the role or not get a callback because you just weren't what they were looking for.
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I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it.
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If I could live in New York the rest of my life, I absolutely would, but it's also prohibitively expensive and you have to be working. New York is a lot nicer when you have a job.
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The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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I've had asthma my entire life.
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I never, ever, saw the evil Steve Jobs. He was always the most well-mannered and respectful guy I knew. And we got to be pretty good friends. He didn't suffer fools gladly. I guess he didn't think I was a fool.
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Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.
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Words don't change children's lives. Real action by the government and equality would.
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Me against enemies, me against friends. Somehow theyboth seem to become one
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The object of the superior man is truth.
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The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.
