Edith Wharton Quotes
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
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Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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We grow small trying to be great.
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I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
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My refrigerator is full of kale and greens. I can't imagine something greasy, or eating meat.
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I first met Walt Disney 25 or 30 years ago.
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Caregiving requires the intention of love, caretaking requires the intention of fear. Not acting in anger when you are angry requires the intention of love.
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I don't know that a lot of boys read 'Rookie', but we get quite a few nice comments and e-mails from them. To say I'm devoted to making it girls-only is a little extreme, because I don't actively try to exclude everyone else, just make sure girls know that this space is for them first and foremost.
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My mother was a very wise and strong person.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
