Anais Nin Quotes
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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There are two phone calls parents don't ever want to get from their children. No. 1 is, 'I'm in prison. Come fetch me.' And No. 2 is, 'I've written a novel... and it's set in your hometown.'
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What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.
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To keeping silence I resigned My friends would think I was a nut Turning water into wine Open doors would soon be shut So I went from day to day Though my life was in a rut 'Til I thought of what I'd say Which connection I should cut
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When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
