Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
Quotes to Explore
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I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.
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An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
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There's definitely a dangerous feeling when you're in love-it's giving your heart to someone else and knowing that they have control over your feelings. I know for me, who always tries to be so tough, that's the dangerous thing.
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We women adore failures. They lean on us.
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Leadership requires using power to influence the thoughts and actions of other people.
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Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence...we make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then the next year we deliberately introduce something that will make these products old-fashioned, out of date, obsolete.
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I, too, would find out that old age is a brute, ferocious beast.
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Never forget that you have the spark of the divine in you. Whatever you do or don't do won't change this fact.
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And I believe that I will never be able to hate any human being for his so-called 'wickedness,' that I shall only hate the evil that is within me, though hate is perhaps putting it too strongly even then. In any case, we cannot be lax enough in what we demand of others and strict enough in what we demand of ourselves.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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I would go home and be this insular girl who listened to music and brooded in her bedroom.
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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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I didn't take school seriously.
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Being able to channel my creativity, emotions and experience through a character was and is freedom for me.
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A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moistens the field.
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When you love something, whether it's jam and cheese sandwiches or wearing your pyjamas as pants, you forget that it was ever anything other than commonplace.
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A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
