Edith Wharton Quotes

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

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• Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.

  

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• I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
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• I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.

  

  Ed Westwick
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• I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.

  

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• Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.

  

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• I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.

  

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• Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
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• I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.

  

  Pat Nixon
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• When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
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• And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

  

  Venerable Bede
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• One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

  

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• At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'

  

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• When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?

  

  Mae Jemison
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• The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.

  

  Carl Weathers
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• The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

  

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• Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
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• I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.

  

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• My number one goal is to take over the music business and run a really great record company.

  

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• Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.

  

  Carl Honore
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• These are the kinds of stories I'm really interested in telling: bad stories about bad people, I'm comfortable with.

  

  Brian Azzarello
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• You can't improv off of bad writing. Then you have to actually create your objective, which is really hard to do in an element without the skeleton to go off of.

  

  Eliza Coupe
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• I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

  

  Edith Wharton
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