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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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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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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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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Thinking of possibilities is like driving a car on a freeway. You have an open road that stretches endlessly before you where your thoughts are not shackled. But when we say 'impossible,' we have already reached a dead-end in our minds. So dwell on possibilities to open up your horizon.
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We will see the presence of angels and we will see an intensification of miracles around the world.
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I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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I think it wasn't so much that the White House altered me in any essential way as that I found the resources with which to respond to a series of challenges. You never know what you can do until you have to do it. In the beginning, it was like going to a party you're terrified of, and finding out to your amazement that you're having a good time.
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I don't know that there is a, quote, 'hip-hop lifestyle.' I think the music responds to complex social issues and injustices; I think it also raises complex social questions.
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I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.
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I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.
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Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.
