Margaret Mitchell Quotes
You are a child if you thought I didn’t know, for all your smothering yourself under that hot lap robe. Of course, I knew. Why else do you think I’ve been—” He stopped suddenly and a silence fell between them. He picked up the reins and clucked to the horse.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.
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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
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Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.
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A well begun is half ended.
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I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
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There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way to the bank.
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I started going to acting school in my senior year in high school, and I remained in acting school through four years of college.
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I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
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I want to go to film college to learn about the departments and how everything works. Then I'm going to start directing.
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As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.
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In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.
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My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.
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I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of myth and see where the characters fit in and what they ought to be doing-all those archetypes are there to play with.
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Silence, much more powerful than before, much more shot through with the meaning of life and the accumulated wisdom of history.
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Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve if they want to live up to the world into which they were born, to live up to the things which surround them and to whose company they are admitted for a short while.
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You are a child if you thought I didn’t know, for all your smothering yourself under that hot lap robe. Of course, I knew. Why else do you think I’ve been—” He stopped suddenly and a silence fell between them. He picked up the reins and clucked to the horse.
