Gertrude Bell Quotes
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Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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I like my country, but I don't think like an Italian. It's a complex, complicated difficult country to make things happen in.
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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
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I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.
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We have more difficult circumstances than most of the Arab countries but in spite of that Syria is stable. Why? Because you have to be very closely linked to the beliefs of the people. This is the core issue.
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'Can't Get Closer' I originally recorded in about half an hour, just on my bed with a microphone. I actually re-recorded the song with a cleaner vocal take, but I decided to leave the demo version on there, just because I felt that instant where it was created is what captured the most emotion.
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To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
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I like to play what I call a-motional golf. Emotion doesn't grab me that much.
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Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
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I feel satisfied after achieving something difficult.
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The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them.
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Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it.
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You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.
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It's difficult when you're successful, to admit that you need help.
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Fear is the one emotion that unleashed can destroy anything and anyone.
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I love red and I think it's more than just a color: It evokes an emotion. When you wear red, it makes you feel empowered and sexy. For me, sin is all about temptation and the power of seduction. Red Sin is a combination of those elements to make women feel irresistible.
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I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walking on a tightrope instead of on the ground.
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I am not a technophobe and I am using the latest technology today, some 30-odd years later, and I am really enjoying what some of the new technologies can offer. But at the same time I am always aware that one can get bogged down in that technology and that it can become more than just a method. That's something that you have to be slightly careful of.
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Hopefully I'm a role model for positive change for everyone - not just women. It's very important to find balance between men and women.
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I am convinced that those who get themselves involved in the machinery of power politics, even for the purpose of destroying it, are bound to fail in their purpose. To destroy it we have to stay out of it. If we want to cut down a tree, it is of no use to climb into its branches. The desire to keep contact with something, even to destroy it, is a subtle and insidious illusion.
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Going to the Academy Awards is something I remember since I was six, when I went with my mom for the first time, 14 with my dad, you know, and there I am, at 22, 23, whatever I was, sitting next to my mom. You know, and then again, there with my dad. Like, there's a beauty to it, and I care deeply about film history.
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There is nothing more difficult to measure than the value of visible emotion.
