Edith Wharton Quotes
To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
Edith Wharton
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
Hannah Murray
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
Fernando Botero
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I wanted to stay on a career path of the likes of Natalie Portman. I didn't want to be pigeonholed into a certain genre. I sort of believe that slow and steady wins the race.
Sami Gayle
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Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.
Pankaj Mishra
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I am nearly the worst role model for a healthy person. To me, a healthy person is someone in balance. Sometimes you eat hamburgers, sometimes salad; sometimes you move, sometimes you don't. I eat more healthily than unhealthily, but I do sometimes eat unhealthy food.
Magnus Scheving
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There's plenty of days when I don't want to eat chicken breast and broccoli and rice, but I know what I have to do, and I know the sacrifice I have to make.
J. J. Watt
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
Manfred von Richthofen
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
Beau Bridges
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The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.
Phoebe Snow
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When I was very young, it was all, 'Here's little Johnny,' and I got stuck with it, but I prefer John. There comes a time in a man's life when he shouldn't have a name ending in 'y'.
Johnny Mathis
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I'm really inspired by my friends. I'm psyched to ride with them, usually, and they're really fun to hang out with.
Red Gerard
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To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
Edith Wharton
