Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes
Le véritable lieu de naissance est celui où l'on a porté pour la première fois un coup d'oeil intelligent sur soi-même: mes premières patries ont été des livres.
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The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.
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The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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At 12, turned 13, made a movie with Sex Pistols and The Clash. Learned about a lot of things I never knew and hope will never know again. Don't know how my parents let me do that.
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I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.
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This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.
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'Power' is really such a good show that I forget I'm in it sometimes.
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Christians are being systematically exterminated.
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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Print-on-demand and electronic self-publishing options have made it easy for anyone to set up a business as a publisher whether they know what they're doing or not.
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It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.
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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, and you're doin' the dishes with your sister, and you're like, 'Omigod, can you believe she said that?'
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I'm an outgoing girl, and I can't help the way I look.
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I have never thought where I will go, or forced any targets on myself.
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My thing is, I don't get in nobody's business or nothing like that or try to bash anybody for what they do. I've got cousins who are gay. To me, there's just no difference. We always chill and have family functions the way we always have. It's not a problem.
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I married up. He's an intelligent and kind soul.
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In one of my latest conversations with Darwin he expressed himself very gloomily on the future of humanity, on the ground that in our modern civilization natural selection had no play, and the fittest did not survive. Those who succeed in the race for wealth are by no means the best or the most intelligent, and it is notorious that our population is more largely renewed in each generation from the lower than from the middle and upper classes.
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For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.
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I hate having to do small talk. I'd rather talk about deep subjects. I'd rather talk about meditation, or the world, or the trees or animals, than small, inane, you know, banter.
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Le véritable lieu de naissance est celui où l'on a porté pour la première fois un coup d'oeil intelligent sur soi-même: mes premières patries ont été des livres.
