Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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Paris is an unsolved puzzle. She inspires me in a way that other places don't. And she demands more of me. Just try to write about her without bumping into cliche after cliche.
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I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.
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I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?
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I have only one real hobby - my husband.
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But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.
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Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.
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I just don't think I'm a very good singer.
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'Every drama school in the country turned me down, and so I was lucky to study drama at all, even if it was lowly Birmingham University. But even when I came out with my degree, my mother promptly insisted I go straight to secretarial college to have something to fall back on, just in case – which didn’t exactly fill me with confidence.'
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I don't believe in planning for things. I just want them to fall in place, unfold as they like. I never design things. I want films to choose me; I don't choose films.
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Despite my express wish, I was not left in Chicago, but taken to Paris to live, and I did not see my father for many years. But we never stopped loving each other, and in 1940 he died in my arms in Hollywood, where he had come to be near me at the end.
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Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.
