Anne Bernays Quotes
There's a sureness to good writing even when what's being written about doesn't make all that much sense. It's the sureness of the so-called seat of an accomplished horseback rider or a sailor coming about in a strong wind. The words have both muscle and grace, familiarity and surprise.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
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I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
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It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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Many people dream about being an entrepreneur, starting their own business, working for themselves, and living the good life. Very few, however, will actually take the plunge and put everything they've got into being their own boss.
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When you grow up starving, you cannot point with pride to a book you've just spent six hours reading. Picking cotton, sewing flour bags into clothes - those were the skills my father grew up appreciating.
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My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
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I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.
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My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
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When you're in prison, the progress of the outside world doesn't necessarily translate inside prison walls. You don't have any rights; it just doesn't progress along the same timeline.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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As I get older, I'm trying to accept improvisation into my day-to-day living.
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I've gotten so many messages I could even get emotional thinking about it, but I've gotten so many messages from young kids all over the country that my story's resonated with them.
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My songwriting, when I'm writing, is nothing like it is in its finished form - but you have to start somewhere.
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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
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For most people who write, writing is a compulsion. If I could be healed of it, I would, and I think a lot of people who write feel the same way.
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There's a sureness to good writing even when what's being written about doesn't make all that much sense. It's the sureness of the so-called seat of an accomplished horseback rider or a sailor coming about in a strong wind. The words have both muscle and grace, familiarity and surprise.
