Christine de Pizan Quotes
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A woman should be an illusion.
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I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.
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If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most.
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My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.
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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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I was born and raised in a small village, and I didn't even think I was especially pretty.
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It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
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I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.
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Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk inscribes space. In The practicse of Everyday Life, Michel de Certeau writes, 'The act of walking is a process of appropriation of the topographical system on the part of the pedestrian; it is a special acting-out of the place...and it implies relations among differentiated positions.' I think this is a fancy way of saying that writing is one way of making the world our own, and that walking is another.
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I am always drawn to men that are funny. I do not know why. But I am always drawn to people that are struggling with parts of themselves... But it's like in the end, there has to be confidence.
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I want people to think about what and who they have in their lives and then run home to hug them and tell them how much they love them.
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The foolish rush to end their lives. Only the steadfast soul survives.
