Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Quotes
In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy.
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I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.
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I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.
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In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
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There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.
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I feel like somehow I'm living my life mentally in reverse. It's taken me to my 30s to feel relaxed and comfortable in my skin. I think I'm going to be dancing on tables when I'm 50. I really hope I am.
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I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.
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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
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'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
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I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
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I will see this game of life out to its bitter end.
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Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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If it's one like 1918 ... then we have to have health authorities make very hard decisions about who should get this.
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Develop an 'attitude of gratitude.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy.
