Ovid Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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The shoe is very much an X-ray of social comportment.
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One of the things I've always thought is a drag in so many period adaptations is that they are always buttoned up to the neck in so many clothes all the time. I'm always looking for excuses to get them out of their clothes.
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We don't trust anyone who does anything nice. That's just the sad world we live in.
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I need my fill of Indian home cooking.
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TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for even the most minor of economic data points.
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If we assume that the last breath of, say, Julius Caesar has by now become thoroughly scattered through the atmosphere, then the chances are that each of us inhales one molecule of it with every breath we take.
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Ut ameris, amabilis esto.
