Margaret Drabble Quotes
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I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.
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I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.
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The very phrase 'Make America great again' implies some kind of reset to a time long since passed. A mission to restore America to a previous default setting where American economic superiority was without peer, factories and manufacturing plants were humming, and jobs were plentiful for anyone who wanted one.
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I'm such a big TLC fan, so I love singing 'Waterfalls' in the shower.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
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I think Patrick will tell you, hey, it was bad decisions, ... Hopefully, what you do is learn from some bad experiences.
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There were uncles in my life that definitely knew the street life.
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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt.... If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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The whole idea of a dream, to me, is a mystery plane. Things are operating there that tell us the real truth. The stuff going on inside us that we don't express or even know about pours out in our dreams.
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The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermittent gloom.
