Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes
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Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
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We own our movie and are now close to breaking even, even without finishing domestic DVD deals.
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I don't want to grow old gracefully. I want to put up a bit of a fight.
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I don't believe in God, but I believe in angels.
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I have little use for Grieg or my Concerto, this is not only extraordinary piano playing, it is an entirely new way of playing the piano.
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"Would you, do you, my dear?" rejoined the Captain ... "I don't know. It's difficult navigation. She's very hard to carry on with, my dear. You never can tell how she'll head, you see. She's full one minute, and round upon you next."
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When in company with literary women, make no allusions to 'learned ladies,' or 'blue stockings,' or express surprise that they should have any knowledge of housewifery, or needle-work, or dress; or that they are able to talk on 'common things.' It is rude and foolish and shows that you really know nothing about them, either as a class or as individuals.
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D-Day represents the greatest achievement of the american people and system in the 20th century. It was the pivot point of the 20th century. It was the day on which the decision was made as to who was going to rule in this world in the second half of the 20th century. Is it going to be Nazism, is it going to be communism, or are the democracies going to prevail?
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I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.
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When we all met her, we instantly knew she was the only person to share the rest of the journey with us.
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If Thai citizens still hold this harmony in their hearts, there is hope that in whatever the situation, Thailand will surely get through it safely and with stability.
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One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday.
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Henry James joyously engaged in the act of writing. A good day's writing gave him a sense of strength, of control over chaos, a victory of order and clarity over the confused battle of existence.
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Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.
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Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.
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A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
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At some point, I picked up an old library copy of 'To The Lighthouse' someone had bought for 25 cents. I began to read and didn't stop until the sun had blistered my back. A mysterious rightness, a beautiful submerged truth had invaded me, one that has ever since seemed slightly beyond my grasp.
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The way of the pioneer is always rough.
