Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes
Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.
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Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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I want to know who my client is. I see her on Instagram, but it's another thing to get to chat with her.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.
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It's a voluntary act. I cannot punish anyone not taking the public transport, but I want everyone, from the highest ranking officers to the lowest, to take public transport every Wednesday.
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My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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I have never written a line of commercial code in my life. Nor should I.
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I think all these pop cultural media often reflect conversations we're having in the real world at that moment in time. I think one of the big conversations we're having as a culture is we thought we'd solved sexism and racism, and we're realizing more and more that we haven't.
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As is the case for many people with multiple sclerosis, the effects of weakened limbs, spasticity and fatigue had cut my working life in half. Yet not a single GP, neurologist or nurse, and none of the MS websites, had mentioned the use of neuroenhancers for the treatment of neurological fatigue.
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Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.
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There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to.
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
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For someone whose goal in life was to stay unemployed, I can't imagine what I thought was going to happen. I was so terrified of everything, I just thought I'd curl up in the gutter and die, and by a complete mistake, my life turned out to be absolutely wonderful.
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To remember who you are sometimes you have to forget what others think.
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Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.
