Elsie de Wolfe Quotes
There never has been a house so bad that it couldn't be made over into something worthwhile.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
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There were no theatre facilities at the comp that I went to, but I did have amazing teachers who never stopped encouraging me.
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My first and only experience in baseball, the coach signed me up; he didn't tell me there's a thing called the curveball. I didn't know that. So the ball's coming at me and I start backing out, and then it broke inside. And the umpire says, 'Strike one!' And I'm saying, 'How is that a strike? It almost hit me!'
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I think it is good when something can stay interesting for a long time. It's not just a trend for one month.
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Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.
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Our view is that younger customers love our digital offering, our mobile banking applications and so on. Older customers expect relationship managers and want much more personal attention in terms of their needs.
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I once got engaged to his daughter Honoria, a ghastly dynamic exhibit who read Nietzsche and had a laugh like waves breaking on a stern and rockbound coast.
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So laying people off is not something I do lightly, it's not something I relish.
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I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.
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I've never spoken with Michelle Fields.
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You're raised to think being a mother is an inevitable step in your development but you start to ask yourself questions, because not every woman does want to have children.
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For me, rehearsal is very important, and I spend a lot of time doing it. Also, I work with my acting teacher for hours and hours before walking onto any set.
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There were a lot of negatives, of course, but there were positives to living a life unfettered by possessions. It gave us the chance to focus on education, which was very important in the Soviet Union.
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ReligionHides many mischiefs from suspicion.
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Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value.
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This damned ranting about doom. Is that food for the minds of modern people? Do they really expect us to take them seriously?
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I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, 'Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.' I just like being myself.
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There never has been a house so bad that it couldn't be made over into something worthwhile.
