George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne Quotes
Of all the kind of pains, the greatest pain is to love and to love in vain.
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Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.
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Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
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Today, dancers have so much more information and are much more mobile. Kids are traveling everywhere to go to summer programs, funding themselves with Kickstarter - putting their dreams on the Internet and seeing if they will pan out.
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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
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People prefer doing films. That is not the case with me. I don't do theatre because I have to but because it makes me feel alive. I enjoy the whole process of rehearsing, though repetition can make it tedious.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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I met Bill Clinton; he's a very nice guy. Yeah, Bill Clinton's cool.
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See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
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I don't think of things globally myself, but I kind of would like to think of things where they are tangible and here. Then I can grasp that concept.
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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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Of all the kind of pains, the greatest pain is to love and to love in vain.
