Ayn Rand Quotes
I hope you will understand my hesitation in writing to one whom I admire as the greatest representative of a philosophy to which I want to dedicate my whole life.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been told you're supposed to do.
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Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.
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As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.
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I over-scrutinize anyone new entering my life.
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What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.
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Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.
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I'm manic-depressive, technically bi-polar II with many borderline features.
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I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.
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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
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It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
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I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.
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My mom's whole life had been my gymnastics. We struggled to connect when I stopped.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup.
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I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.
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Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.
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One of the greatest compliments you can ever get is when you make fun of a certain sect of people and they are laughing the hardest. When we did 'Men on Film' on 'In Living Color,' gay men wrote in how much they loved it.
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A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.
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I hope you will understand my hesitation in writing to one whom I admire as the greatest representative of a philosophy to which I want to dedicate my whole life.
