Aubrey Menen Quotes
There are three things which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. Since the first two pass our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'
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Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
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We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks in this world, but that's not true.
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If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.
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I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town.
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It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.
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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
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Fuck the harder way, I'm doing it the smarter way
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I am a little shy of any assumption of moral indignation. There is always in it an element of self-satisfaction which makes it awkward to anyone who has a sense of humour.
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It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear – usually justified – the other side would beat them to a pulp.
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Anyone who has been successful and has knowledge to share is a potential mentor.
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I got a tattoo saying 'Made in England' above my foot to represent that, that I felt like a doll for so long.
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There are all kinds of things that can scare you every day. What if someone you know gets cancer? What if something happens to you sister or your friends or your parents? And what if you get hit by a car crossing the street or the kids at school find out what an unnatural freak you are and what if you go too far out in the lake and the water is over your head and what if there's a fire or a war? And you can lie awake at night and worry about these things because it's scary and unpredictable, but it's REAL. It's possible.
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There are three things which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. Since the first two pass our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.
