Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes
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And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.
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I said we're going to leave phones, and so we did. We sold it to Sony.
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I didn't want to be one of those arty nutcases.
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I like a sort of androgynous look, but I also love feminine shapes.
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My parents always supported me and complimented me on other things, not just my looks. They told me I was capable, that I was smart, that I was creative.
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Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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A man is known by the silence he keeps.
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I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop. The only words I knew in English were 'dance' and 'Michael Jackson.' We got put in a flat in Mitchum, and the council gave us second hand furniture, second hand clothes and a second hand radio that I took to bed with me every night.
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Any job is wonderful.
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People want to know where I'm going, and I just don't ever know.
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I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.
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Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.
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My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.
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It's been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.
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I have decorated soldiers for heroism before, and it was always such an honor to do it.
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I don't believe that you can learn acting in a classroom.
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I'm anything but skittish about government, but I must say this administration is truly scary and, given the times we live in, frighteningly dangerous.
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The idea of holding back certainly didn't come from Scripture.
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Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap.
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Avoir du mérite à s'abstenir d'une faute, c'est une façon d'être coupable.
