Lillian Russell Quotes
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.
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I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.
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Unlike Milan, Italy's banking capital, or Rome, its religious center, Florence was the place where the rich went to buy goods that would showcase how wealthy they were.
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Your reader is interested in a guileless, fresh, first-time-we-talked-about-it way. What a great liberation that is. And teenagers, if you respect them, will follow you a lot further than adults will, without fear of being a genre that they may not like or have been told not to like. They just want a story.
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I've had enough of being a gay icon! I've had enough of all this hard work, because, since I came out, I keep getting all these parts, and my career's taken off. I want a quiet life. I'm going back into the closet. But I can't get back into the closet, because it's absolutely jam-packed full of other actors.
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
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It is often constructive to meet with a candidate for a particular office, but I believe what is most important is the candidate's track record.
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Time to open up a new chapter in life, and to explore a larger centre.
