Margaret Cavendish Quotes
And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.
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There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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We run to win, not just to be in the race.
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When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding very little happening.
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It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
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Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.
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I don't cook fancy every day. I don't think anybody can, nor would it be very good for you.
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I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.
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By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.
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I think Hollywood has seen what fandom can do for a project. You can definitely see that when you go to Comic-con.
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I figured out something spiritual. Billboard this: 'Life is supposed to be fun!'
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You can take the boy out of England, but you can't take England out of the boy. And ummm, yes, I feel a huge emotional attachment to England.
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Oh – what's the bloody point?
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You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.
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My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina strikes, and then the conversation only lasts as long as the news cycle. His family squatted in shacks. The children scavenged for food.
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And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.
