Frances Farmer Quotes
I do not know Tyrone Power. I fucked him a lot, but I do not know him. Gentlemen, this meeting is over.
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The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.
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When I was little, one of my father's friends owned a circus. For four absolutely incredible summers, I found myself being the only boy in Ireland who didn't dream of running away with the circus. I was in it!
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.
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Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
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Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.
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I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
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Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.
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There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.
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I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.
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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.
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One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
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My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!
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In not more than a month’s time terror will assume very violent forms, after the example of the great French Revolution; the guillotine... will be ready for our enemies... that remarkable invention of the French Revolution which makes man shorter by a head.
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As always, a lot of bad books will be published. Some good books will be published, and you have to seek them out.
Colson Whitehead -
I've always looked upon research as an opportunity to satisfy my curiosity. But the other side of the coin is one must not be so caught up in it that one never gets the book written.
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There is nothing worse than giving the longest of legs to the smallest of ideas.
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I do not know Tyrone Power. I fucked him a lot, but I do not know him. Gentlemen, this meeting is over.
