Charlene Costanzo Quotes
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Stardom happens - you can't plan it - it's destiny, and you shouldn't stand between you and your destiny. I'm letting my destiny play its part, and I go by my gut feeling. If I like my role, I say yes; if I don't, I just refuse, as simple as that.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
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I believe in forgiveness.
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The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.
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It's kind of fun to be sexy.
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'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.
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Eagles had made a realist of him. He believed in facts, and in altering your viewpoint to fit them, no matter what they were. That was the way you survived and stayed sane; it was hard, it meant sacrifices-he had already lost many things that he valued deeply-but it was the only way.
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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
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Indeed I do and I admire it. I am a practicing Catholic.
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I realized that I have to slow down. I work so hard, I'm so busy.
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My great-grandfather was prime minister of Canada, and I had a very Edwardian upbringing. It was a beautiful, romantic way of growing up, until the family lost its money. And I decided to be bad and rough and find the streets rather than the gates.
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Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.
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When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple.
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After art college, I got a job as a medical illustrator, and I was pretty good. I had to imagine what was going on in the operations because the photographs just showed a mess.
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May hope rise within you. May peace wash over you.
