Alice B. Toklas Quotes
the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.
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I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
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If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
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In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.
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You've got to keep your eye on the prize and do what you love to do.
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People associate girls with long blonde hair with the girls in 'Clueless' or 'Legally Blonde.' You can't be smart and educated and have an opinion because you are supposed to be stupid.
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People say I look younger than the music I'm doing just because the songs are older. Hopefully I can keep my youthful look!
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I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.
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Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.
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I think character is very much a product of where you live, who you are, what is happening in that time of your life, and I'm interested in those pressures, those forces. A political context, a social context, really determines if not who people are then how they treat one another and what they say, how they speak.
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I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
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I realised at a certain point that if I was going to have the kind of life that I fantasised about, I needed to get my act together.
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The parties are advised to chill.
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I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.
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I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that's the end. They are finished. I want to paint the air which surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat, the beauty of the air in which these objects are located, and that is nothing short of impossible.
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Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth.
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I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora's 'Runaway' music video. Something inside me clicked, like, 'That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.'
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the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.
