Florence Nightingale Quotes
I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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For me, if I'm just killing time, I play solitaire. I'm also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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My nephew has type 1 diabetes, and it's my goal and hope that in his lifetime there will be a cure for diabetes. There's no place better to give the money to than the Juvenile Diabetes Association.
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The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.
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One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.
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Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.
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I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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Experiencing those moments of being alone... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to be in when you're just not used to it... But I've never been lonely. And with my kids Mia and Joe that remains the case.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.
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I know you are going to be embarrassed. We're all embarrassed by it, but to hide the embarrassment... silence has never protected women or helped them. We need to talk about it more with our, you know - whoever - our friends, our family.
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The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.
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I'm from L.A. South Central area.
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.