Wendy Cope Quotes
I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.
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My good films were independent and my bad films were not.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.
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Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
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I like women with style to wear my shoes.
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I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that. He gets this opportunity to tail these homicide detectives, and he's driven by that. He's a little immature, but he's obviously loving life.
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When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.
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I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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Kabir Khan is that rare director who manages to merge Bollywood formula with a good story.
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Regardless of what you're searching, you ain't gonna find it until you include God. Because, if you have a problem with women, drugs, or whatever the case may be, the only person that can fix that problem is God.
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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.
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That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.
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New experiences give you new perspectives on life.
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I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.
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I love life. I wish I could live another 500 years, truly. There is so much to do. I don't feel bitter or angry or disappointed. If anything, I am very grateful for where I come from. I have absolutely no regrets.
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A Texas girl who grew up in terrible poverty, I ended up leading a pretty glamorous life.
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I know. Life is so unfair. I'm still not going to pee on Karou's ex-boyfriend for you." "What? I wasn't even going to ask you to." In her most reasonable tone, Zuzana explained explained, "I just want you to pee in a balloon so I can drop it on him.
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It is unethical not to know. It is unethical not to think. It is unethical not to love. It is unethical not to live an impassioned life. It is unethical not to attain greatness. It is unethical to succumb to the fear of envy and the conspiracy of mediocrity. It is unethical not to self-bestow genius. It is unethical not to be the first monkey.
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Of course there was a Great House at Allington. How otherwise should there have been a Small House?
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Sexy, to me, is the way you carry what you have. I have a big nose, but I rock it.
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I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.
