Elsie de Wolfe Quotes
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When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.
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Combining sounds that are from another universe with the classic songwriting structures never gets old for me.
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
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Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.
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Winning is no longer just the outcome. It's part of the process.
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I didn't have a business degree. I didn't have experience to work in somebody else's office. I never built or ran a department. So I was on this journey, and when the time came to make a decision, I was just going with my gut.
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I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.
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I inherited honesty and self-discipline from my father; from my mother, I inherited faith in goodness and deep kindness as did my three brothers and sisters.
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For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.
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Now that I have found someone I'm feeling more alone Than I ever have before.
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Ever since 'The Apprentice,' my life has gotten so much busier.
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If you're a better scorer than me, I'll put you down on the block; you score. I don't care. I can do other things.
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Sometimes I get in writing moods and I want to write a song every couple of days. Then sometimes I may not write a song for three weeks. It's just according to how it's hitting me at the time.
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When 1970s feminism hit the United States, women demanded the right to natural childbirth and to have their husband or another support person in the delivery room. My mother gave birth to me during this time.
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Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
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To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.
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If you don't write about what you know, you're like a barrister and have to do a frightful amount of research for each case.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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I was a club kid. I was on the cover of 'New York' magazine and discovered like that.
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'Edward has a purpose for us. Ruling the world, I assume.''He can’t,' says Alec, aghast. 'That’s what villains do!'
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Because it is... far slower than Lamarckian evolution, biological evolution is always quickly outrun by cultural change.
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I think it's important for people to understand that as a woman, I can only rap about the parts I have.
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Light, air and comfort - these three things I must always have in a room.
