Alice Duer Miller Quotes
When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.
Alice Duer Miller
Quotes to Explore
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'Vagabond' is about owning where I come from, understanding the real power music had to transport myself with, whether that's busking in Europe or getting number ones.
Eddi Reader
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I'm appealing to people who want something different, but the world, on the whole, doesn't really embrace different things. Not on the whole.
FKA twigs
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I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I think writing was a way of withdrawing into my own imagination.
Samantha Shannon
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Deciding to not attach ourselves to something that doesn't appropriately represent us is extremely powerful.
Omari Hardwick
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Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.
Oliver Hudson
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If wishes were stories, beggars would read...
Randall Jarrell
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In London we give ourselves a pat on the back, rightly, for not killing one another, for our prejudice being subtle rather than lethal.
Martin Freeman
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remember to recognize the small successes that you will have. Don't let the brightness of that big goal blind you to what happens on the way toward the goal. Meet one wave at a time and enjoy what progress you make. I want you please not to be taken up in the undertow of pessimism.
Lucille Ball
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How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling?
Virginia Woolf
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I used to hunt as a child but gave up the chase in my 'Ho Ho Ho Chi-Minh, we shall fight and we shall win' chanting and marching days - by which time I had come to share Oscar Wilde's feelings about 'the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.'
Jonathan Dimbleby
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As people buy less and less records, it's become more and more important for me to spend more and more on them - to lavish that much more attention on them. The Bad Seeds were always quite protective and old school, but Grinderman has opened us up to do anything and be shameless. We're not so precious about it.
Nick Cave
The Birthday Party
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When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.
Alice Duer Miller