Muriel Spark Quotes
If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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My personality is extremely unbalanced.
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We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.
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Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our streets of crime.
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I have some amazing fans! They're just so dedicated and so nice and so sweet. I'm, like, no one and I'm just starting out, and these people appreciate your work and it's nice to hear that.
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To me, no matter who you're casting for what role, if something's authentic, usually you can mine something good there.
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I actually have a decent singing voice, and I've never been able to sing onscreen. I'd love to do a musical.
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Time machine... wouldn't you like to travel through time? I would. I'd go back... mess with people. You know what I would do? I would go back to when my mom and dad were having sex, to have me. Ya'know, come in, spank my dad on the ass *smack* I'M YOUR SON FROM THE FUTURE!! AAAAAAHAHAHHAHAHAHA! *smack* I'M FROM THE FUTURE!! I'M YOUR SON!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAH
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Only a fool can't be fooled.
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My girl has gone, and said goodbye.Don't you cry, hold your head up high.Don't give up, give love one more try,'Cause there's a right girl for every guy.
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If I hadn't have had music in my life, it's quite possible I could be in here. Or nor even in here, be dead - and I'd much rather be alive.
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SÃ, trataré de ser. Porque creo que es orgullo no ser.
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I love running. I've been running ever since middle school. In terms of clearing your head and restarting everything, I love running.
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My family believe you should never be flashy about anything. Maybe that handicapped me a little bit, that extreme humility.
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I find it valuable to watch what I do. I like to know when I'm making a choice if it actually works or not.
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They came and bound me up and I had awful stretch marks. I hated my breasts after that.
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I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.
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If people are being upstanding citizens of the Republic, then you have to widen the net to incarcerate them. This explains why America's prisons are full of nonviolent offenders - a perfect example of American exceptionalism.
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All we can do is evaluate what we see in practice.
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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
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If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.
