Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes
Overhead shone the great star of the constellation of Lyra, destined to be the polar star for men who will live tens of thousands of years after we have ceased to be.
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Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
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I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths.
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A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers.
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But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear.
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When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
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I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.
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I auditioned for this agency. I got an advertisement first, and then something else, which I got fired from. It was soul-destroying. And then the next thing I got, I thought was going to be my big break, and they cut the role. It was only the year that I started auditioning for 'Star Wars' when I really started getting roles.
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.
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I actually run a non-profit where one of the main objectives is to branch out and get a new audience for the theater. Just because the writing is so good and nothing is more effective than seeing something live and happening right in front of your face, so I definitely want to continue to pursue that.
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I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.
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In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.
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It's successful, middle-class Arab men and women, professionals with seemingly happy family lives, who are prepared to go to paradise for a greater cause. That's terrifying.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.
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I love men who make me laugh.
Nastassja Kinski
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That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches.
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I think I'm genuinely sincere, and that's what hopefully makes it work. I take that very seriously when I'm writing.
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I'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million people in the country, you don't even have to please 1% to be phenomenally successful.
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Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
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How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.
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Overhead shone the great star of the constellation of Lyra, destined to be the polar star for men who will live tens of thousands of years after we have ceased to be.
