Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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It may come as a surprise, but Frou Frou was really like a kind of little holiday from my own work. Guy and I, we have always worked together, and then over the years, it became clear that we wanted to do a whole album together. It was very organic and spontaneous - just one of those wonderful things that happens.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Britain cannot compete with China or Taiwan on price; we compete on skills, on arts and culture.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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Surely the stars are images of love.
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Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.
