Anne Sullivan Macy Quotes
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
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To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.
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Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
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If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world.
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The baby boom is about to become a patient boom.
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At one point I had to shove as much food in my body as possible to pack on calories. My trainer wanted me to do six meals a day and not go two hours without eating. If I would cheat on eating one day, I could tell - I'd drop a few pounds.
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Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.
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I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.
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I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.
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I really feel sorry for new generation. It's hard to find backbone. I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.
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Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.
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Sense the blessings of the earth in the perfect arc of a ripe tangerine, the taste of warm, fresh bread, the circling flight of birds, the lavender color of the sky shining in a late afternoon rain puddle, the million times we pass other beings in our cars and shops and out among the trees without crashing, conflict, or harm.
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
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'No I'm not no loser, I'll see you in Hell.'
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The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.
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The truth is far beyond what we can see. Therefore my art is an invitation to comprehend this fact.
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Anyone who has any kind of success in Hollywood wants to make more expensive movies and spend more money, be bigger. I think it's unusual to have success and want to stay small.
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I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation.
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People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
