Edmund Blunden Quotes
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I wouldn't ever pose naked... I'm fine to do bikinis and certainly lingerie if I feel it's done tastefully... cute like Victoria's Secret, but nothing like raunchy or overly sexual.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
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All of my businesses are profitable.
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Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
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I'm just a human being. I'm from the projects, too.
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I'm very affected by what I watch and read.
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The Ramans do everything in threes.
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Souls made of fire, and children of the sun,With whom revenge is virtue.
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I was always rather outspoken. I worried about what people thought of me but there really wasn't room for a lot of self-doubt.
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I've always said when I die and if I do get to the pearly gates and St. Peter says, what have you done to deserve entry, I'd ask him if he'd saw my Lina Horn piece. It's always been a favorite of mine.
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Poe was plagued and haunted most of all by something pretty banal: poverty. Probably the most eccentric decision in life was to become a writer in an age when making a living at it was nearly impossible.
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Let me tell you a story about when I was growing up in Spain. Many Sundays, we would invite 30, 40, 50 people to the countryside, and my father would make a big paella. He put me in charge of the fire and the 'stove' - the rocks that hold the pan. But he wouldn't let me cook. I got so unbelievably upset.
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I am for the woods against the world, But are the woods for me?
