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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The Ramans do everything in threes.
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'Amores Perros' and 'Once Were Warriors' had a tremendous visceral quality that really influenced me.
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There's actually 14 in our family, but we disowned the others.
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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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People from small towns have to have their edges roughed up to get along in the world. But as a street reporter, you learn quickly.
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In any finite region of space, matter can only arrange itself in a finite number of configurations, just as a deck of cards can be arranged in only finitely many different orders. If you shuffle the deck infinitely many times, the card orderings must necessarily repeat.
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In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud. (p. 94)
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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I am for the woods against the world, But are the woods for me?
