Margaret Cavendish Quotes
Some brains are barren grounds, that will not bring seed or fruit forth, unless they are well manured with the old wit which is raked from other writers and speakers.
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I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.
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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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I am really focused on how I can improve myself and the world around me.
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Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.
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I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind and really put it out there as they saw it.
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Climate change is the central environmental ill of our time. We have an obligation to protect our children from the dangers of this widening scourge, and we aren't yet doing enough about it.
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I have very weirdly realistic dreams where it could be real life, except it's not.
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This is exactly how minds are opened: through honest, frank dialogue. Tears may be shed, but not blood.
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I should like very much to go to America. I have heard so much of the great industrial and economic development of that great land, and I wish to see things for myself.
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When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.
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I always thought, because America is supposed to be the land of the free, nudity would be part of the norm over there, but it isn't. It's surprising.
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I kind of write about visual art the way Roger Angell writes about baseball, which is to say, you're writing about life: it's a somewhat focused, limited terrain in which you write about everything.
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My favorite teams are the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Jets.
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The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our business as it is today, is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it.
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A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue.
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Love is not consolation. It is light.
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Once you have two buyers, you can usually make the assumption that you have a limited downside risk.
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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it.
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Some brains are barren grounds, that will not bring seed or fruit forth, unless they are well manured with the old wit which is raked from other writers and speakers.
