Lillian Hellman Quotes
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what - but the jeans can get fancier and fancier.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.
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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'
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As an actor, you're constantly looking to be pushed.
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Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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I've spent a long time giving people the benefit of the doubt, and I'm tired of it.
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When you win the toss - bat. If you are in doubt, think about it, then bat. If you have very big doubts, consult a colleague then bat.
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I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
