Ovid Quotes
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I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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Who'd give up sunny California for the grey old Earls Court Road? I'm looking out at blue skies and the mountains and trees, and it's so beautiful.
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Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like.
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Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
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We must be loyal to the forum of our government.
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
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I only did about one novel a year while I was working full time, but since 1993, I've averaged two and a half books a year.
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When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.
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In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak.
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I'm really, really emotional.
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The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya – the Papunya Artists – performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They'd never done it for anyone else. They honoured me with a ceremonial stick that signifies the story of the land.
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The Beater has still been young enough to feel immortal, at least on his better days. It was all, Wow, if we don’t slow down, we’re gonna die before we get old, except somehow it hadn’t happened that way. So they’d all assumed it never would, not dying, not getting old-hell, not even growing up.
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Maybe he's growing up.Or maybe he just needed the right circumstances to discover the best in himself.
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They threw me out the Ramada Inn, I said: 'It wasn't me, I got a twin! Oh my god it's you, not again!'
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A voice or a song can be so comforting to someone who really needs it.
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I'm a Jewish Jane Austen.
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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
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I love seeing my mom and my daughter embrace their natural hair. I'm glad I've embraced it, too.
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Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.
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A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them.
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A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.
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There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
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Ut ameris, amabilis esto.
