Margaret Mitchell Quotes
I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.
Quotes to Explore
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Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.
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There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
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On many different singles, I was able to marry my music with rappers who understood the natural bond between us.
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No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
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A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
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Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
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I went to private school my whole life. Growing up in Los Angeles, you're surrounded by not just Connecticut privilege but, like, your-dad's-a-movie-star privilege.
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that.
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It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
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The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.
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I'm a dad, and I can tell you it's the most beautiful thing in the world.
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I believe in giving more than 100% on the field, and I don't really worry about the result if there's great commitment on the field. That's victory for me.
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I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.
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The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.
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There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.
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A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.
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I write to get myself writing. That and read Wallace Stevens' "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" for the umpteenth time. Certain authors for me, certain books, just by reading a phrase I feel I can write.
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I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
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I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.
