Camille Pissarro Quotes
Work is a wonderful regulator of mind and body. I forget all sorrow, grief, bitterness, and I even ignore them altogether in the joy of working.
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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History's lesson, of course, is that attempts to suppress free expression have merely confirmed the caricaturists' original critique of heavy-handed and objectionable actions of overreaching governments.
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I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.
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If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.
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The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
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I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress becomes the part, just as a good singer becomes the song.
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We've got enormous potential, phenomenal potential on our doorstep, which requires politics that makes that work, and that's what we try to show here in Ireland: that while there's a lot of pain, the reward at the end of this is career opportunities, prosperity, and brighter days for everybody.
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We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ.
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I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'
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I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don't bother to become interesting.
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Work is a wonderful regulator of mind and body. I forget all sorrow, grief, bitterness, and I even ignore them altogether in the joy of working.
