Edie Sedgwick Quotes
I came to New York to see what I could see - that's from a children's book, isn't it? - and to find the living part.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
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Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.
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All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
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Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.
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I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.
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Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.
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I like that Barack got that job.
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It was the students who entered kindergarten in 2011 who are - and I am weighing my words carefully - the sacrificed generation. It is they who have paid a high price for the politics of yesterday - that is to say, the government of Mr. Fillon.
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Give your kid some credit for being smart - just because they read about something doesn't mean they will do it.
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If you look on the fungal genome as being soldier candidates protecting the U.S. as our host defense, not only for the ecosystem but for our population... we should be saving our old-growth forests as a matter of national defense.
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I came to New York to see what I could see - that's from a children's book, isn't it? - and to find the living part.
