Edith Wharton Quotes
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Like so many families, we were dealing with limited means. We weren't poor at all, but we had some challenging times financially. When my stepdad got laid off... we were really trying to find our footing for a couple of years.
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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
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The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.
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China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
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I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.
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My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.
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There are always two forces warring against each other within us.
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When one guy undermines the other, it only causes trouble, and the team isn't successful. It's very important for both of us to accept our role and help the team. One guy can get hot, and if that's Alex, I'll support him and help any way I can.
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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Men create the gods in their own image.
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If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.
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The feeble soul merely whines and complains.
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I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.
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The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.
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'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.
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When I started, you didn't make a lot of money by being a comedian. You didn't get a lot of respect.
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What he has spent it on, apparently, is just hiring a bunch of staff people to wander around Utah and Mississippi and pick their nose.
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Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
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The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.
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I studied philosophy at Columbia, then dropped out to do drama at the Lee Strasberg Institute.
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It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.
