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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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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I like that original romance of having a pen and a legal pad and going anywhere in the world and being able to write a novel with just those two things.
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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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When I address admitted students each spring, I ask them to consider two questions: Why would Harvard be the right place for the person I am? Why would it be the right place for the person that I want to become? These questions, in my mind, get at the heart of any admissions process.
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There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.
