Trixie Mattel (Brian Michael Firkus) Quotes
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
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Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
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I want money; I just don't want that money lying around.
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When we make the show, we are always talking about how the show is really in between what we make and what the viewer thinks of it.
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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When I got diagnosed, the more research I did about it – MS overall, as a subject, as a disease – there's a lot of misconceptions and there's a lot of unknowns about it, and there wasn't anyone out that was close to my age or close to anything like me out there.
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It was intended as an earthly reflection of paradise not just for Mumtaz Mahal, but also for the visitors who would visit it over the years. In fact the larger Taj complex with its forecourt of the Jilaukhana complex and the surrounding bazar and caravanserai zone were meant to accommodate travelers.
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When Prussia hurried to the field,And snatch'd the spear, but left the shield.
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These external regions, what do we fill them with Except reflections
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Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.
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Commitment to great causes makes great men.
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The essence of business to me is great people run great companies. Mediocre people don't do a very good job.
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God moves in mysterious ways. All gods do. It's the only way they can work.
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I am inherently a little brother - that's just my nature. It has to do with my sister being very strong and wanting to protect me. It's the natural order of things.
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A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
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Cat Stevens' music, voice, and energy made me feel so secure. He sounded different from some of the paternal figures in my life, so gentle and kind.
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I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.
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You get better as an actor over time if you're growing. Like singers.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world, peopled by bright-eyed attractive men, women, children... Where nobody dies... In my worlds people died. And I thought that was honest. I thought I was being honest.
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I never made up any investor. I never made up Paul Abrams.
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I like my men like I like my coffee... incapable of loving me back.
