Nicole Hollander Quotes
Which do you think is the more impossible dream: the perfect man or the perfect handbag?
Quotes to Explore
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Marriage has made me safer.
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Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
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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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When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker.
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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'm easy to hate. I get it.
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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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If you want to make your children brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want to make them more brilliant, tell them more fairy tales.
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I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you and the State over which you preside in His holy protection; that He would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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This world's a bubble.
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Which do you think is the more impossible dream: the perfect man or the perfect handbag?
