Barbara Tuchman Quotes
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

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I love to cook. I could never give that up.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'
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Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.
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I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had me in dance classes, and then I got involved in a local theater company.
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I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.
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I eat next to nothing.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
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We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.
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When you're used to playing with people, when you're in a band, then you're used to playing with each other. People nowadays aren't used to playing with each other because they don't have to.
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Cough up a lung where I'm from marcy son, aint nothin nice
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My mom really instilled in me this idea that parents are not perfect and they make mistakes.
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I don't think I can name any names or anything, but this is what I've wanted to do for a long time: to have Flume as my creative outlet and to work on the biggest songs in the world, like pop, and come up with the idea and send it off.
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I moved to New York for school right after I turned 18, but I started getting into trouble - so I went home to L.A. to regroup.
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.