P. D. James Quotes
Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.
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First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
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I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.
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Take good care of our fragile planet.
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But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.
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When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.
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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
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I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.
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Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.
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In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.
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I don't think that you can let the storms of life overwhelm you. When you do that, you are no better than the craziness that caused you to be under attack.
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I've always looked old for my age.
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Everyone in New York is very self-involved. They're focused on themselves. Like, walking down the street, people are just in their own zone.
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I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.
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The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us.
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My face is oblong. But the best grooming is confidence.
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I cannot walk into our garden without constantly being reminded of the friends who have shared their plants.
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Some media outlets refer to 'protesters' and 'militia members,' not 'terrorists,' even though armed antigovernment extremists seizing federal property and expressing a desire to kill and die is a textbook description of domestic terrorism.
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In reading Jung's account of his cases, it is impossible not to be aware that his success was due partly to an element of ruthlessness; he was dominated by curiosity rather than compassion.
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The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.
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I liked the solitude and the silence of the woods and the hills. I felt there the sense of a presence, something undefined and mysterious, which was reflected in the faces of the flowers and the movements of birds and animals, in the sunlight falling through the leaves and in the sound of running water, in the wind blowing on the hills and the wide expanse of earth and sky.
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Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.
