Muriel Spark Quotes
everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.
Quotes to Explore
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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.
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The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
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You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.
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Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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I did charity events with the Cup all the time.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.
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Life isn't always really glamorous and fabulous. It's about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty.
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The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next to Elvis Costello.
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My wife is very supportive.
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When I tell people I'm an Italian Jew, they're very amused by it. But obviously by blood I'm Jewish, because my mother is.
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When you see U2 or the Rolling Stones, after years of knowing each other, they don't have to look at each other to connect.
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I don't analyze what I'm doing. I've read convincing interpretations of my work, and sometimes I've noticed something that I wasn't aware of, but I think, at this point, people read into my work out of habit. Or I'm just very, very smart.
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Life's too short and too complicated for people behind desks, people behind masks to be ruining other people's lives, initiating force against other people's lives on the basis of their income, their color, their class, their religious beliefs, whatever.
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I love pink - pink's my favourite. I hardly ever - weirdly - wear it, but I love the colour pink.
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Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.
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Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible, or you can do not so well and they can make it beautiful. You don't really know.
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everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.
