Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
Nobody can change your religion unless you want to and God gives you the grace. It's between you and God alone. Nobody can force you.
Quotes to Explore
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I loved the world of imagination.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.
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It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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I defy any woman that doesn't feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a blow dry.
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Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.
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The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.
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There are no ordinary moments.
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The drums tell me everything. Everything else registers a millisecond later.
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We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a writer's friend.
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When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.
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I came from battling, knowing about the lyrics. All that's cool, but if you want people to love you, you have to talk to them about what they go through.
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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.
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The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
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I dont want to call it a conspiracy to ignore the role of the Blacks, both above and below the Mason-Dixon Line, but it was definitely a tendency that began around 1910
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I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it's Top 40.
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Nobody can change your religion unless you want to and God gives you the grace. It's between you and God alone. Nobody can force you.
