Margaret Qualley Quotes
I was used to having a job - ballet was my job, and I felt like I needed something artistic to focus on after I quit.
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There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.
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I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.
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Everything I do now is a first.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.
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Influence is best measured not only by military hardware and GDP, but also by other people's perceptions that we, the United States, are using our power legitimately. That belief - that we are acting in the interests of the global commons and in accordance with the rule of law - is what the military would call a 'force multiplier.'
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It's fun to grow with a character over the course of a TV series. Video games are usually a much more condensed process.
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Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a good evocation of writer's block.
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Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.
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Job creation is a choice. Investing in cleaner, greener technologies that allow us to strike a more sustainable balance with the other living systems of this earth - this, too, is a choice.
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One of the most productive times in my early writing life was while I had a full-time job as a word processor in a law firm and also worked part-time at night, often working until 11:00 P.M.
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We always focus on the quality of music because as long as the content is good, then the interest will be there.
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I was used to having a job - ballet was my job, and I felt like I needed something artistic to focus on after I quit.
