Margaret Cavendish Quotes
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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I want to be free... free to develop my art.
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Women love a self-confident bald man.
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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 think there's a certain level of trust that I have with women. I've always been honest, even when I haven't had good times in my life or my movie bombed or I've had great success. I've owned up to all of it.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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I was really, really star-struck when I met Prince.
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Everything I say is true.
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All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
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My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.
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I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.
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Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
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I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience.
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Courtroom dramas can be boring.
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The Granite State needs a senator who knows that New Hampshire comes first - and leads like it.
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Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.
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Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve if they want to live up to the world into which they were born, to live up to the things which surround them and to whose company they are admitted for a short while.
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There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.
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To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.
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As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred.
