Margaret Anderson Quotes
My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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It's an evolution. The same team doesn't always dominate, and it goes in cycles.
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I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.
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I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight.
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It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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I actually started out as a poet in high school. I published in small literary magazines for probably about ten years. I entered the Yale Younger Poet contest every year, until I was too old to be a younger poet, and I never got more than a form rejection letter from them.
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When I first started out in cycling, if there were two girls there, that was successful; but now, if there are 20 girls there, it's just unbelievable. The growth of the sport is just incredible.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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Cyclists need to help themselves and should not jump red lights. I would ride in London, but I certainly wouldn't ride like that; you just have to be careful. I can understand going down the outside of traffic, but you should obey the rules of the road because we're all road users.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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If there's a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it's not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there's a house rumor, they'll find out it's not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.
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My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.
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I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.
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There were numerous times where, at the end of a week of working on a song, there was a part of it that we still weren't feeling, so we'd scrap the whole thing and start from scratch the next week.
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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.
