Alice Foote MacDougall Quotes
Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.
Alice Foote MacDougall
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
Imelda Staunton
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
Octavio Paz
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Little boys have amazing minds.
Ferdinand Marcos
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During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.
Iqbal Quadir
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
Sam Shepard
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I love art, being so close to the galleries, being by the water - and sunsets from the terrace.
Edgardo Osorio
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I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.
Chrissie Hynde
Pretenders
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Nothing tends to materialize man and to deprive his work of the faintest trace of mind more than the extreme division of labor.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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Require nothing unreasonable of your officers and men, but see that whatever is required be punctually complied with. Reward and punish every man according to his merit, without partiality or prejudice; hear his complaints; if well founded, redress them; if otherwise, discourage them, in order to prevent frivolous ones. Discourage vice in every shape, and impress upon the mind of every man, from the first to the lowest, the importance of the cause, and what it is they are contending for.
George Washington
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The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that.
Pat Paulsen
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Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.
Alice Foote MacDougall
