Kate Douglas Wiggin Quotes
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.
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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
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All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.
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Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
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You can over analyze anything. I constantly have to tell myself, 'Sabrina, stop thinking.' There are people who are just analytical. It's part of your gene makeup, or too much caffeine.
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There is nothing worse than when actors come to a set - and it happens a lot with big stars - and they are too aware of where the camera is. They are the show. And that becomes apparent and it affects the production. I am like 'You should not know where the camera is - you should act, and I will do the rest.'
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So many songwriters peak in their early 20s because they're living off their passions.
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The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.
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«And the European one?»
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The criteria of art are the imponderable, the immeasurable.
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I'm a member of the US committee o the United Nations.
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The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
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In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.
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Your job as a producer is to make suggestions without putting your ego in front of everything else. Also, I think you want to focus on that artist's best qualities and really highlight them.
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The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior.
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I have no regrets about launching Salon. For the life of me, I can't imagine doing anything else.
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The mind of your own enemy, the pupil, is working away from you, as keenly and eagerly as is the mind of the commander on the other side from the scientific general. Just what the respective enemies want and think, and what they know or do not know, are as hard things for the teachers as for the general to find out.
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I get plenty of, 'Is that song about me?' from men but I just tell them to get over themselves.
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How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?
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A mistake I've made is I have not worried sufficiently about the art world, really. I have not concerned myself with the other people in the art world. I've been a little too singular, and that's a mistake I've made. But everybody makes a mistake of some kind, and if that's my only mistake, I'm happy.
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Some folks mistakes all they see for all there is.
