P. J. Soles Quotes
I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.
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I couldn't speak any English when I first left Russia, and Intimissimi taught me everything. The team was like a family to me - they showed me how to model and how to stay in shape. They really believed in me.
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.
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I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.
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When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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It's weird: for someone who mostly really exists online, I'm actually not very interested in the Internet at all.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?
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Women who have abortions are people you know. Because that is the truth! One in three American women will have an abortion by menopause.
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When I first came into the league, I followed my parents for everything. Now, I'm really doing stuff on my own.
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You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
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When people ask me what I think is my best work, it's the bus. There're lots of books, but there's only one bus.
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When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it, what will it be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then - that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it. You say you have poets in your world. Do they not teach you this?
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If I were a doctor nobody would be inviting me to talk to reservations. I'd be a different person. Writers can influence more people.
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If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings.
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I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.
