M. F. K. Fisher Quotes
I think that when two people are able to weave that kind of invisible thread of understanding and sympathy between each other, that delicate web, they should not risk tearing it. It is too rare, and it lasts too short a time at best.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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The interweb's got a weird vibe.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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A will finds a way.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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It feels really good to give back. I'm opening the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness Centre in Australia.
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I saw 'Rolling Stone' magazine once, and they were talking about the top 50 songs, and there wasn't one Sly song; how does that happen? But, Sly isn't the type to brown nose for props. He's always known what he had, what he was capable of; I'm just proud that he took the time and effort to put it to music.
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For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical diversity and grandeur; but above all else, by the sheer variety of the colors of its people, from tan and sepia to jet and ebony.
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For progressive people the present is the beginning of the future. For conservative people the present is the end of the past.
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Telomeres are the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes in cells. Chromosomes carry the genetic information. Telomeres are buffers. They are like the tips of shoelaces. If you lose the tips, the ends start fraying.
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To love the world is to be afflicted.
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I think that when two people are able to weave that kind of invisible thread of understanding and sympathy between each other, that delicate web, they should not risk tearing it. It is too rare, and it lasts too short a time at best.
