Linda Vester Quotes
So now my road map has changed and I don't have a really clear idea of what the next stops are.
Quotes to Explore
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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The underdog winning is the romantic position.
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Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.
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A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
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It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.
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I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
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I'm extremely humbled, I'm happy and I'm blessed, because at the end of the day, I'm doing what I love to do.
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I'm very much a family person.
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Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed. We do not find signposts at crossroads, but our own scouts erect them, to help the rest.
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So now my road map has changed and I don't have a really clear idea of what the next stops are.
