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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When I see a woman who looks her age, she's radiating something, and it's life.
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There's no staying where you were. If you're not doing anything, your skills and point of view are atrophying.
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I do believe we all have a responsibility with our lives. It's just an extraordinary miracle that we exist, as a person with our unique characteristics.
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I spend a lot on shoes, but my favourite shoes I've had for 16 years: a pair of black Michel Perry ankle boots with gold lining.
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Whither am I going? To the New World. What to do? To gain honor? No, if I know my own heart. To get money? No: I am going to live to God, and to bring others so to do.
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When called by a panther,Don't anther.
