Adrienne Monnier Quotes
I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of books where I dwell, the dead can count entirely as much as the living.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.
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There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.
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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
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When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding very little happening.
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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
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I was about 14 when I started with a theater group; it was like a stage group on the weekends alongside school. And it was run by a group of guys who'd been to drama school themselves in London. So they introduced us to techniques that they'd learn about, and they kind of informed us about improvisation and screenwriting and all of that stuff.
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The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
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I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.
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As bad as your situation may be, someone else always has it worse than you.
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Mr. Obama is particularly well positioned to challenge Hollywood because of his special relationship with the media world's elites. They might be more likely to heed criticism coming from Mr. Obama than from any other president or member of Congress.
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Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
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I love books. I've always been involved with books and I wanted to help the library in any way possible. I'm an avid reader.
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I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of books where I dwell, the dead can count entirely as much as the living.
