Edward St Aubyn Quotes
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
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Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.
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I played Miley Cyrus' grandma on 'Hannah Montana,' and the first time I was on, they said, 'We love having veterans like you on because she's like a little sponge, and she's really appreciative of all the veterans that are coming on the show, and we just love that you're teaching her.'
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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I worked at a hospital parking cars and getting folks in and out of the hospital as they would come in for their appointments.
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The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change.
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I was never like, 'Oh, I really want to play Cinderella.' That's not necessarily always been the dream. But it's super fun to play a princess.
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I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it.
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I want to make music, I want to act, I want to sing, I want to do something that doesn't make my skin erupt.
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The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.
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There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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There's nothing quite as powerful as people feeling they can have impact and make a difference. When you've got that going for you, I think it's a very powerful way to implement change.
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I truly never saw myself doing anything other than music. There was nothing else that brought me this much joy, but also this much frustration.
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For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a foam rubber stool and devouring children's fiction, classics, salacious thrillers, horror and sci-fi, books about cinema and origami and natural history, to the point where my parents encouraged me to read a little less.
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Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.
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Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
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It must be hard to be exclusively social and entirely friendless at the same time.
