Gertrude Atherton Quotes
Power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.
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I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.
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Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them efforts.
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When moms stayed home, it was easier just to let the kids play around the house. But as women entered the workplace and the extended family dissolved, someone else had to pick up the slack on the child-care front. Extracurricular activities fit the bill perfectly, promising not only supervision but also enrichment.
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But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
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Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
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I'm not lying to myself like most people.
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To me, no matter who you're casting for what role, if something's authentic, usually you can mine something good there.
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I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
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I lift quite heavy weights, but unfortunately no one believes me.
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When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.
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Human nature is above all things lazy.
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Power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.
