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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We cannot allow activism to be stifled because of all the paranoia going around.
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There's so many great coming-of-age movies to steal from, and I feel like I just tried to steal from them all equally.
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In Cuba, I would start the first two months hitting around .260 with three or four home runs. After the first half of the season, I would get hot, and that's when I would have my best results.
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
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For me, the acting part - and I have to say it makes me a little worried about my own psychological make-up - is that I just love to hide in other characters. I don't like to get up in front of people and talk as Kathy Baker. But as soon as you say 'action,' I'm lost in that character.
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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.
