Arthur Helps Quotes
The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
Quotes to Explore
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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I like to wear shoes that are cool but also practical. The same goes for bags. Your bag is a big deal in New York. You can't just carry around a little clutch, because you don't have a car or anywhere to stash things during the day, so you need to carry your whole life with you. That's why I like big, chunky bags with lots of compartments.
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With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.
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I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.
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I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
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The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure.
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My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.
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I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.
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I try not to make it personal, and I don't care about partisan politics one way or the other.
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Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.
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You keep adding things to your game. You never want to stay the same. You want to be consistent.
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Acting has always been something I've wanted to get into. I think the best models are actors; you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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To create something that's genuinely new, you have to start again, and I think with great intent, you disconnect from the past.
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The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
