Ogden Nash Quotes
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As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
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David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
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Seventh and eighth grade? That's the worst. I think it's the lowest point of life. All I remember is painful acne and terrible clothes. And lots of getting dumped.
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I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.
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A hospital is no place to be sick.
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I'm really aware of the conversations that surround young actresses in Hollywood. I always get myself into a hole with these conversations, and I get weirdly quoted, and I sound militant and like I'm not thankful at all, and I'm so thankful of everything that's happening. But I'm an active observer of the machinations of this world.
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Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it - symbolically - and we don't know ourselves more than half.
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I am not a sentimental person.
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I'm certainly not a workaholic.
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All of a sudden I was living what is perceived to be the model life. It was just full-on, 24 hours a day. It was work all the time. And there's always a party to go to.
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I think the role of the Bond woman has changed so much over the years that it now doesn't follow a typical archetypical view. Before, it was very much a beautiful woman who didn't contribute much and who usually ended up getting killed or was arm candy for Bond. But now the women in a Bond movie have so much more to offer.
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My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.
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If you pick up an eighteenth-century play, at the top it says 'The Argument,' and then you have a list of characters, and then you have the play. I was just always struck by that - that, of course, good drama is about conflict.
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You're not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in - and you're willing to deal maturely with these disappointments.
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I often give this metaphor where I say that writing short fiction is like surfing, while writing a novel is like navigating with your car. So when you navigate with your car, you want to get somewhere. When you surf, you don't want to get somewhere, you just don't want to fall off your board.
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I've stayed away from sexy roles. It's never interested me.
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The amazing thing about music is that however many thousands of records I've got now, I know that there are still thousands more that I haven't even begun to discover.
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Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right.
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When called by a panther,Don't anther.
