Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.
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If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.
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I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
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The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'.
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Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.
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Generally, writers have very uninteresting lives.
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Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.
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Dreams come true, but then things happen that are beyond anything you could dream. To be in a movie and to be in the same room participating in a movie with Meryl Streep? Come on!
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Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.
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The Sin Washer had died centuries ago, and His legacy seemed often to be in the accumulation of connections and power more than the distribution of emotional or spiritual ease. She kept that thought to herself. Wisdom came in many forms, and silence was often the most useful.
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It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair-splitting over words. Consequently, the government has given me back my freedom.
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Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.
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If I have an audience, I'd like to make music for my whole life. But it's not really up to me.
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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
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I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
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Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
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Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.
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All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
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To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
