William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.
Victoria de los Angeles
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Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
Rachel Stevens
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Hard writing makes easy reading.
Wallace Stegner
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Shallow communities are relatively easy to build.
Malcolm Gladwell
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As a former minority leader who became the first Republican Speaker of the House in Florida since Reconstruction, I know that leadership is not an easy task.
Dan Webster
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When I get on a roll with something, it's really hard for me to put it down unfinished.
Taylor Swift
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It's hard to do a reality show when there's so much crying and drama.
Maddie Ziegler
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I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.
Mackenzie Davis
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It wasn't easy to get here, and it will not be easy to take my title away from me.
Rafael dos Anjos
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Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it's easy to thwart.
Adam Grant
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It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.
Victor LaValle
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Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.
Walter Hagen
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Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
Carl Clinton Van Doren
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I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.
Laura Lippman
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I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It's not easy for me to curl up.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I'm very laid back, easy. There's nothing better in life than seeing your kids do well.
Caitlyn Jenner
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Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.
Walt Mossberg
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I'm an easy date. I meant cheap date, cheap date!
Jack McBrayer
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I have a similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of my parentheses out, so as not to call undue attention to the glaring fact that I cannot think in complete sentences, that I think only in short fragments or long, run-on thought relays that the literati call stream of consciousness but I still like to think of as disdain for the finality of the period).
Sarah Vowell
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If you sing beautifully about nothing, no one will listen. If you sing badly about great stuff, no one will listen. Ideas are everywhere, but my theory is that a writer doesn't just think of an idea: they perform them.
Patrick Ness
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The suffering of this life not only can make our temperament more like the Divine Personality of Jesus, but it detaches us from this world. This Divine preparation opens our souls to the working and pruning of the Father.
Mother Angelica
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Always be yourself. There's only one you. You should embrace anything that you don't like about yourself because that's individual and that's you.
Jesy Nelson
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What we are going to do is continue to grow our content spend on original programming, both in absolute numbers and as a percentage of our total spending, because it's been working. It's been helping grow the brand; and more importantly, it's been driving viewing hours relative to how else we would spend the money.
Ted Sarandos
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
William Makepeace Thackeray