Nancy Mitford Quotes
Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
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I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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I actually have more shoes than anyone will ever know.
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I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.
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Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.
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I wanted to see the score! What do you got to do that's so important? You can't join the religious cult with me!
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In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.
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Almost always, great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.
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Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.
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I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances.
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It is instilled in thousands of American males from an early age that one of their requirements is to be able to both dish out and take a lot of pain. They are taught the rules of this road in gyms, rings, backyards and fields all over America.
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In a calm sea every man is a pilot.
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In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.
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Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.
