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 come from really humble people. We never had a lot.
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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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We have forgotten that before we began calling this date rape and date fraud, we called it exciting.
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Looking for a job, I was working with the Salvadoran American Foundation, a humanitarian aid group, and from there, I got an offer from the Cuban-American National Foundation.
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If art can be at the service of anything, it's about letting us see a state of grace for those people who rarely get to be able to be seen that way.
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You have to remember this was the '60s, when climbing was dangerous and sex was safe.
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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.
