Elsie de Wolfe Quotes
It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand.
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.
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I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
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He might take habit, whether from wave or phrase,Or power of the wave, or deepened speech, Or a leaner being, moving in on him, Of greater aptitude and apprehension,As if the waves at last were never broken, As if the language suddenly, with ease, Said things it had laboriously spoken.
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She would worry, just as you worry. It’s the people who don’t worry-those who never have any doubts that what they’re doing is good and right-they’re the ones that cause the problems.
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For decades, Wall Street has charged companies a standard fee of 7 percent to sell their shares to the public.
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Time is the wisest counselor of all.
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I've spent a lot of time trying to understand how all the big cosmetics companies get away with the placebo science and unscientific claims.
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All of philanthropy is harnessing that urge to have your name on something, and using it for good.
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You gotta understand - the state of Mississippi was in rebellion. It had rebelled against the United States. Now that has been a very difficult story for America to tell, but that's what actually happened.
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The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none.
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Movies are movies, television is television.
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The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.
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I don't want to be jumping from team to team.
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The invention of ethical and political doctrines, which blossomed into our own social sciences, is a product of times when things appeared manageable. The same goes for the criticism of those doctrines, though as a voice from the past, this criticism proved prophetic.
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The cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year.
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I think I look better in a suit than a loincloth. So that may define some of the parts I play.
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I think that if I'd not made the movie, I might be a veterinarian in Connecticut. I would probably be married with some children. That's probably the way it would be. But because of the film [the Exorcist], I don't have a normal life by somebody else's standards.
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How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
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My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spent time at a convent and with an aunt and uncle who lived in New York and took me to the theater.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand.
