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 was an early adopter of the 'Hunger Games.' I read them before they were best sellers - I was on the pre-order wait list for 'Mockingjay' on Amazon.
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I'm conflicted about the lyric tattoo thing. I feel like that's a lifetime decision, and I always feel like, 'I hope you don't regret this a couple years from now when you get tired of that song.'
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I'm a clown, which could be a public health role. I'm really interested in moving our society away from a society needing Xanax and Prozac, and that is really feeling depressed, to one that is celebrating, and so I find just walking around in colorful clothes, people smile.
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Being an Australian that's been No. 1 in the world back home playing in Australia, that's a pretty cool moment to have.
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Commitment is doing the thing you said you were going to do long after the mood you said it in has left you.
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Ut ameris, amabilis esto.
