Edith Wharton Quotes
The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
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One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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At Al Jazeera, we are getting our local Somalis, Yemenis and Sudanese, local correspondents from within the society, who understand much better than the people who come from overseas. We will get a much better insight.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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I am interested in the subject which is Russia.
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I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.
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After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.
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The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
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When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.
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Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us.
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ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.
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The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.
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English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
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I will go running when I'm stressed out. The running helps, but more than anything, I'll put music on and then I'll run. I'll cry and get it all out.
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In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.
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I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth.
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It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
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If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed.
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The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
