Elsie de Wolfe Quotes
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A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
Irving Penn -
I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.
Edie Campbell -
Most of the umpires, it's amazing: 98 percent of them will not hold a grudge. I always felt a couple of them did. I never wanted to argue with an umpire in my life.
Earl Weaver -
I'm gonna live my life the correct way, and I'm gonna be a champion the kids look up to and hopefully aspire to be like.
Daniel Cormier -
I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much.
Kate Dickie -
When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.
Rainbow Rowell
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The beautiful 1940s women were a strong influence for me.
Rachel Roy -
I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them had in common?' They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that's the most beautiful thing.
Wale -
I don't think I can play a role without falling in love with something about her; even the most despicable people who I have portrayed had some aspect of them which I found beautiful.
Rachel Miner -
I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.
Patrick Dempsey -
My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.
Taylor Caldwell -
Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
Abraham Verghese
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
Wallace Stevens -
If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
My life has been devoted to peacemaking.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
It hasn't been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it's been exciting and good and I'm thrilled to be an actress and a singer and to have spent my life this way.
Sally Kellerman -
I don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade!
Laura Linney -
I have my pride. I'm a director. I'm not going to go and recreate some other director's vision.
Fede Alvarez
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Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.
Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead -
I believe that the right thing for us to do, as much as we can and without confusing people, is to talk about how we're doing, the things that are going well but also the things that aren't going well.
Astro Teller -
As soon as I hear that there's something to get used to, I know that I won't; I sort of pledge myself to not getting used to it.
Geoff Dyer -
Whatever people do, they do for a reason and they think that it meets their needs....by their perception.
Anthony Robbins -
I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.
Elsie de Wolfe