Anais Nin Quotes
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I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
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I portray female characters, so I have the opportunity to change the way people look at them. Even if I wasn't consciously doing that, it would happen anyway just because of how I present as a woman, or as a person. I present in a way that's not stereotypical, even if I'm playing a stereotypical role.
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In 1941 I finished at Allison Intermediate School (grades 7-9), and started at North High School, commuting by bicycle about 5 miles from home to school.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.
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Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.
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Entrepreneurial Philanthropy is not just a philosophy or a dream. It is a promise that philanthropy is at its best when it is founded on entrepreneurial zest and agility.
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If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.
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Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call 'global challenges,' which require global solidarity.
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A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.
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I really believe that if you want something bad enough, and you work so hard to get it, and you have it inside, then if you just never stop, it's gonna happen.
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The red carpet is not something I really know how to work. It intimidates me. I feel very tiny.
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If we continue doing the right things in Africa, we can create a very exciting and competitive global market here.
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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
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I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.
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Some people say the reason I am not married is that I don't understand small business and the toughest small business in the world is a family. But when you are happy and feel every minute of your life, what is the reason to get married?
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Well who's black and what is a black person?
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There have been certain issues, but we have been working reasonably well. Necessary precautions are imposed because of the situation but we are working.
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Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
