Ellen MacArthur Quotes
To be honest, it is a really tall order and Francis has again set an incredibly high benchmark.
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When you have to do as much as women do, the Internet allows you to - from home - figure out a way to extend your reach and power in the world. It allows you to do what job you've done traditionally, and create aspirations by carrying on a job and using the Internet to amplify everything you're doing.
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It's not very often that you get to come up with ideas and bring your take on the character and then actually have writers, producers, and directors pay attention to it.
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A Little Treasury of Modern Poetry is a standard Oscar Williams production... ...the book has the merit of containing a considerably larger selection of Oscar Williams’s poems than I have seen in any other anthology. There are nine of his poems - and five of Hardy’s. It takes a lot of courage to like your own poetry almost twice as well as Hardy’s.
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We will cooperate with whoever is best... as long as they choose us as well. It cannot be merely unrequited love.
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I don't talk to myself or anything, but sometimes I say things and I laugh at myself. Sometimes you have to make fun of yourself.
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Three thousand people singing back your songs is an incredible feeling.
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Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist church.
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The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.
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I can't wait to have kids; I just can't wait to hold a baby in my arms.
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What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.
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That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.
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I try to be as ruthless as possible. I ask myself of each sentence, "Is it clear? Is it true? Does it feel good?" And if it's not, then I rewrite it.
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It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.
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Nothing is forever except change.
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We may think that our tradition is exactly the same as it has always been, but that is an illusion.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by it. Even if people don't fully understand where my work is coming from, at least there's somebody who looks kind of sane standing in front of you and politely engaging with you. People react.
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To be honest, it is a really tall order and Francis has again set an incredibly high benchmark.
