Margaret Mitchell Quotes
Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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A big reason I'd spent my career as a writer and not a public speaker is that I am a person who refines my worldview in a silent room, waiting for my thoughts to arrange themselves on the screen before me.
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
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I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.
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I would categorize Die Antwoord as pop music: extreme, futuristic pop music.
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Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.
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It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
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I've traveled around the world.
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The whole scale and scope of the decorating and fashion business in this country are incomparably grander than in London. What's thrilling about America in general, and the New York fashion scene in particular, is its optimism. It makes the whole experience energizing and uplifting.
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I wanted to be an actor, and when that day happened that was sort of like the end. Now let it take me.
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There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one.
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When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity of the journey of your character.
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Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.
