Lauren Bowles Quotes
I'm not completely vegan - my diet's probably about 80 percent plant based, but I do eat some meat. I try to know where everything comes from, though. And all bets are off if my husband and I go to a really great restaurant.
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When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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The most amazing set where I've shot 'Game of Thrones' is definitely Croatia, in Dubrovnik. It's such a stunning country with lots of good watersports there as well. Just a beautiful, beautiful place.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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'Tommy' was my first Broadway show. Long Pause. I don't know how you can surpass the excitement or get more excited or feel more on top of the world than when you are sitting in a room singing The Who, and Pete Townshend is sitting there tapping his foot.
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Finality, Sir, is not the language of politics.
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I think that it's when we step out of the road, step outside the box, become our own person, and we walk fearlessly down paths other people wouldn't look at, that true progress comes. And sometimes true beauty as well.
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The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.
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But strength alone though of the Muses bornIs like a fallen angel: trees uptorn,Darkness, and worms, and shrouds, and sepulchresDelight it; for it feeds upon the burrs,And thorns of life; forgetting the great endOf poesy, that it should be a friendTo sooth the cares, and lift the thoughts of man.
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I'm not completely vegan - my diet's probably about 80 percent plant based, but I do eat some meat. I try to know where everything comes from, though. And all bets are off if my husband and I go to a really great restaurant.
