Emma Alice Margaret Asquith (Margot Asquith) Quotes
One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.
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If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.
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They say every writer really just writes about one thing over and over. I guess my one thing is how the past impacts the present.
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This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.
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In literature, older women are not often given center stage.
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I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days.
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I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.
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I've never lost my capacity to be shocked.
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and then he could not see her come into a room without a sense of the flowing of robes, of the flowering of blossoms, of the purple waves of the sea, of all things that are lovely and mutable on the surface but still and passionate in their heart.
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I'm still basically the same as I always was. I still listen to the same people. That's where I'm coming from.
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One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.
