Lilly Pulitzer Quotes
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Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
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I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
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I'm a political conservative.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.
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The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.
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Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.
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There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.
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Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.
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When you record, you live with what you recorded for many many years, but when you play it's just an hour and a half and then once it's over it's over.
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There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children.
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I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.
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Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character; it becomes lack of power to act with courage proportionate to danger. All this must lead to the destruction of our intellectual life unless the danger summons up strong personalities able to fill the lukewarm and discouraged with new strength and resolution.
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I started playing basketball when I was about three years old. After that, everything else just came naturally. I had older cousins that used to let me hang with them, so I got my toughness from them.
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I can't put into words what I think about anything.
