O. Henry Quotes
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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War is over if you want it.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.
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Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.
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It's always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He was not a John Bircher.
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On handling stress When you start projecting on the future-'Oh my God, I gotta do this and I’m not there yet'-well, of course you’re not there yet because you’re here now. That time will come…I try to stay in the moment as much as I can and find whatever joy I can in that moment, no matter what it is. Then it doesn’t feel as stressful.
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In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off to the side. People don't listen.
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Acting requires a great amount of empathy for real lived human experiences.
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In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.
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It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.
