Nicole Hollander Quotes
Which do you think is the more impossible dream: the perfect man or the perfect handbag?
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Marriage has made me safer.
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I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
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My mom could be pretty strict.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
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I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
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I don't watch TV.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.
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When we have sealed the outer border and thus stopped the illegal migration, we can talk about any solution.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.
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In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.
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E-mails, phone calls, Web sites, videos. They're still all letters, basically, and they've come to outnumber old-fashioned conversations. They are the conversation now.
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My parents are from the South - they were both born in Birmingham - so my dad saw R.E.M. really early on when they were playing college stuff in Athens. He had a bunch of their cassettes from the '80s, and when I was 8, 9, or 10, those were the sort of things that were around the cassette player in the living room.
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My dear, be a good man - be virtuous - be religious - be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.
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Moving to L.A. when I was 11 was when my entrepreneurialism started because it's the land of the American dream.
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The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting.
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Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.
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The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
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Which do you think is the more impossible dream: the perfect man or the perfect handbag?
