Katharine Tynan Quotes
I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing.
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A happy wife is a happy life.
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The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
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When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
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El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
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Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
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The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
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But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
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I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment to expressing your thoughts and feelings in writing says about the character of the writer. About the joy such notes bring to the reader.
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When Corporate America finds a Jayson Blair in its midst, the standard operating procedure is to circle the wagons and deny that any form of liability extends up the chain of command.
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What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
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In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.
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I always wanted to be an actor, but my top three favorite actors of all time are Al Pacino, James Dean and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.
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Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for.
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But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.
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My self-confidence can be measured out in teaspoons mixed into my poetry, and it still always tastes funny in my mouth.
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When you have seen the things I have seen and traveled all over the world, you would not be honest to yourself and the world to look away.
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I think there's a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel.
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I've always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.
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I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing.
