Ninon de L'Enclos Quotes
A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
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I love to cook. I love having friends over and family. I am definitely a feeder - I feed everybody. I am jumping around the kitchen like a crazy woman.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.
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With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.
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If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
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Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.
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The reason why nothing sticks to Trump - or very little sticks to Trump - is that he created this brand idea that has to do with being the guy who gets away from it.
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What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. What would I say, that I am already married? Why would I say it? I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind. How I spent a year and a half with him, only I know. And I only did it because of the child.
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Commitment and creativity cannot be captured and handcuffed. Inspiration cannot be jailed. The heart cannot be contained.
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I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether it's a man or a woman.
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When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.
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I'm trying to get in where I fit in and take it to the next level.
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People miss those who they love. It brings tears to my eyes to see the longing for me. But it's my decision to do fewer films and more protagonist-based roles. For me to take up something, it has to make a lot of sense to me.
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Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.
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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
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The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country from that state of Bondage in wch. they are held, is a striking evidence of the benevolence of your Heart. I shall be happy to join you in so laudable a work.
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Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness.
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The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.
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A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason.
