Edith Wharton Quotes
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J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
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Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
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I'd like to do more acting.
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This love is silent.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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There was a girl who messaged me and said she was on the verge of taking her life, then 'Battles' came on just in the nick of time.
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When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
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I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
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The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
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People think that coaches are always right, but it's difficult to teach a runner how to run, because every runner is different. You have to have an understanding of how to assist what that runner has, so they know how to assist what you have without taking away your special ability, because you're not like anybody else.
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Dreams and reality are united in our imagination. The artist possesses the means to create only after he has effective command of his faculty of empathy which he must develop simultaneously with his imaginative capacity.
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We certainly strive for trying to make a quality record throughout, and I think that's true of all of our records.
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I was a typical Valley teen, in smoggy Van Nuys.
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They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton... I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business.
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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
