Elizabeth Bowen Quotes
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Everyone in New York is very self-involved. They're focused on themselves. Like, walking down the street, people are just in their own zone.
Dakota Fanning
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When I was a kid, my parents would play badminton, but I hardly joined them. I'd just pick up their racquets and fiddle around. Check out how the racquet was made... toss it around to see how light it was! At the time, I didn't even know I'd play badminton.
Saina Nehwal
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I will always be open to receive my friends. I will not force myself on them.
Ralph Abernathy
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I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.
Maisie Williams
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My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
Nancy Duarte
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There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just 'works.' I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.
Barbara Kruger
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His features were small, in keeping with his stature, and regular. His skin was very fair. The whiteness of his cheeks was as little blurred by any considerable growth of beard as by the glow of blood. His clothing was neither new nor of more than ordinary quality, but it, and his manner of wearing it was marked by a hard masculine neatness.
Dashiell Hammett
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Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood,
Even where horrible green parrots call and swing.
My works are all stamped down into the sultry mud.
William Butler Yeats
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
O. Henry
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Let mine not be that saddest fate of all To live beyond my greater self; to see My faculties decaying, as the tree Stands stark and helpless while its green leaves fall... "She lives, but all her usefulness is past."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
Elizabeth Bowen
