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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All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that's how I speak.
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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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Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.
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Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.
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When images are in black and white, they seem timeless. When you see Carrie Otis in an ad from 1989 next to an ad with Klara Wester from 2009, you don't see a 20-year difference between the pictures.
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A lot of coaches are very intense, which is good once you are working, but you don't want that all the time.
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Avoir du mérite à s'abstenir d'une faute, c'est une façon d'être coupable.
