Monica Hesse Quotes
Fiction writing and journalism, in my experience, are really excellent training grounds for each other.
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I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
Dalai Lama
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There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.
J. D. Salinger
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Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.
Daley Thompson
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
Candice Bergen
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.
Faith Hill
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
Victoria Pendleton
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I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.
Nancy Reagan
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People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.
Kate Winslet
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I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
Lady Gaga
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If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn't do it.
Carlene Carter
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We need to continue our full support of the nascent Iraqi government by helping to rebuild their economic infrastructure and maintain security while training the Iraqi security forces.
Pat Roberts
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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Oscar Wilde
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I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.
Frances McDormand
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I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.
Ina May Gaskin
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Everyone in New York is very self-involved. They're focused on themselves. Like, walking down the street, people are just in their own zone.
Dakota Fanning
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I don't want to participate in traditional Indian religious ceremonies - dance in a sun dance or pray in a sweat lodge or go on a vision quest with the help of a medicine man. The power of these ceremonies has an appeal, but I'm content with what little religion I already have.
Ian Frazier
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When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.
Samuel Foote
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There is an English saying, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." Women often become these tough ones.
Dalia Grybauskaite
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
Gary Hamel
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If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
James A. Michener
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I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.
Corey Haim
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Fiction writing and journalism, in my experience, are really excellent training grounds for each other.
Monica Hesse