Winifred Holtby Quotes
The world, with all its beauty and adventure, its richness and variety, is darkened by cruelty. Death, if it ends the loveliness, the adventure, ends also that. Death balances the picture.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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America is a meritocracy.
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If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want.
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No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.
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I hate downtime.
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I really wanted to work with Kate Mulgurew and Natasha Lyonne.
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There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
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The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.
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Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren’t afraid of truth.
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The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
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Physics has in the main contented itself with studying the abridged edition of the book of nature.
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I have been interested in beauty from an early age. My sister used to put face masks on me and do me up with my mother's makeup!
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Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.
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Whenever I write about mental health and integrative therapies, I am accused of being prejudiced against pharmaceuticals. So let me be clear - integrative medicine is the judicious application of both conventional and evidence-based natural therapies.
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Honestly...how did I do as a big sister?
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The world, with all its beauty and adventure, its richness and variety, is darkened by cruelty. Death, if it ends the loveliness, the adventure, ends also that. Death balances the picture.
