Astrid Lindgren Quotes
I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.
Astrid Lindgren
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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
Ed Koch
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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
Gaby Hoffmann
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
Kate Mulgrew
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
Dale Carnegie
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
Orson Welles
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You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score.
Johan Cruyff
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We tend to have mixed feelings about the holy. There is a sense in which we are at the same time attracted to it and repulsed by it. Something draws us toward it, while at the same time we want to run away from it. We can’t seem to decide which way we want it. Part of us yearns for the holy, while part of us despises it. We can’t live with it, and we can’t live without it.
R. C. Sproul
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She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different.
Laini Taylor
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Picasso's superhuman gift for draftsmanship might have made him lazy about pursuing the full potential of color. It was not unusual for him to build a composition by first outlining figures and objects in black and then filling the interstices in a perfunctory manner that can put one in mind of a museum-shop coloring book.
Martin Filler
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I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.
Astrid Lindgren