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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I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.
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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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I'm too much of a control freak.
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Major organizational changes create uncertainty.
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It was the old New York way of taking life 'without effusion of blood': the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than 'scenes,' except the behaviour of those who gave rise to them.
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All I needed was the courage to be me. That courage took a lifetime to develop.
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By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommer-ciable ones of the human spirit.
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To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
