Ambrose of Optina Quotes
Where there is simplicity, there are a hundred Angels, but where there is cleverness - there are none.
Ambrose of Optina
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Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) - you will have hope and be made hopeful.
W. Clement Stone
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When I arrived, a hundred women were there auditioning... I raised my voice three registers, curled up in a chair, licked my hand and did ‘meow’s ,the director said, 'I didn’t tell her to do any of that stuff' – but the next day I got the part. Caesar Romero, Burgess Meredith, I was so lucky to work with all of them.
Lee Meriwether
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When Edna O'Brien's first novel, 'The Country Girls,' was published in 1960, her family and neighbors in the small Irish village where she was born tossed copies into a bonfire expressly set for that horrifying purpose.
Alan Cheuse
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I'm like a little kid when it comes to music. I mean, the music is always blasting wherever I am that people always knock on my door and say, 'It's too loud!' But I think music gives so much inspiration.
Donatella Versace
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To sing opera, one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion.
Andrea Bocelli
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It just flat-out sucks losing. It really - it doesn't feel good.
Jason Day
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I leaned forward on the table and leveled her with my steady gaze. “Do not ever speak to her that way again. If she hadn’t agreed to come with me I wouldn’t have come. Don’t underestimate her importance. She’s mine. Respect that.
Abbi Glines
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In your loneliness, you hear the word from far away and then, in gratitude, look at it so closely that you cannot but drown in it.
Edmond Jabes
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One thing I am sure of is that I won't judge a dance reality show.
Kajol
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Good writing is writing and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting. Sometimes, it happens to work right away, and that's amazing. But most of the time, it happens to work, and then you rewrite and rewrite and rewrite, and maybe it even comes back to the thing it was in the first place, but then you know for sure that it is good, and it's what you wanted to do.
Kate Beaton
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Where there is simplicity, there are a hundred Angels, but where there is cleverness - there are none.
Ambrose of Optina
