Minnie Pearl Quotes
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Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.
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There is a very real danger that financial regulation will become a wolf in sheep's clothing.
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The young should not think of themselves as immature and the elderly need not view themselves as feeble. Our minds control our bodies. Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into naka-ima-the "eternal present".
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Very often when I haven't faith in my faith, I have to have faith in His faith. He makes me believe in myself and my possibilities, when I simply can't. I have to rise to His faith in me.
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What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story.
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There's a certain cruelty to being on a big screen as your eyelids start to sag and your hair falls out and turns gray that you either have to be able to handle or not. What you can't do is try to force yourself into roles that you could have played or would have played ten years earlier.
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It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves.
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To dislocate the functioning of a city without destroying it can be more effective than a riot because it can be longer-lasting, costly to the society but not wantonly destructive, moreover, it is more difficult for Government to quell it by superior force.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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It takes falling down a bunch of times before you start running.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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You can't look at the competition and say you're going to do it better. You have to look at the competition and say you're going to do it differently.
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I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.
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Regard everyone you meet as the Buddha and you will know 10,000 Buddhas.
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When I see someone for the first time in a while, and they ask, 'How have you been?' or 'What have you been up to?', it's politeness but a bit of a conversation stopper.
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There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US.
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Our first gig we played as a three-piece, we got paid $15; I got $5. But I was 12 years old, and I never had $5 at one time before," he said. Their first earnings were a cause for a celebration, so the boys traveled to Tony's in Saginaw.
