Adah Isaacs Menken Quotes
There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.
Quotes to Explore
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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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.'
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I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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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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He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
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I was born in New York in 1904.
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I don't really get to see a lot of other comedians, because I work with the same people all the time. The guy I really like is Nick DiPaulo. I love Nick DiPaulo, but again, he's a buddy of mine. But I liked him for a long time. I liked him before he was a buddy of mine.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
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I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.
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Even after all these years, finding a really first-rate story is still a thrill, one I want to share with others.
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Pushing people forward simply because of their colour, irrespective of merit, would be most unfortunate and would of course lead to disaster. It would mean that Rhodesia would then develop into a kind of banana republic where the country would in no time be bankrupt.
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O Man, as long as you exist, know, have, and cherish, You have not been delivered, believe me, of your burden.
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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
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59: In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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She wished such words unsaid with all her heart...
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The most amazing thing about Karl Lagerfeld is that no matter what you ask him, you will always get an interesting answer. We even exchanged notes about ponytails.
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Taking steps is easy Standing still is hard... Everything is different The second time around.
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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.
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There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.
