D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where for the first time in my life I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. This was where I discovered 'Encyclopedia Brown' and 'Nancy Drew,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Rebecca.' This was where I became inspired to be a writer.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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Writers are so important.
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I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.
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I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
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I honestly feel very humble when I study Capablanca's games.
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How can the arts overcome the slow dying of men's hearts that we call progress ?
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Well, jobs are a great thing. You have to be a bit careful: If you raise the minimum wage, you’re encouraging labor substitution and you’re going to go buy machines and automate things - or cause jobs to appear outside of that jurisdiction. And so within certain limits, you know, it does cause job destruction. If you really start pushing it, then you’re just making a huge trade-off.
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I've come to realize that you live on through recordings; they're like a musical diary, a window into somebody's soul.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
