Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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In my own experience, I've found that it's very difficult to make peace with women. We tend to be competitive and feel angry.
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I miss people. I miss going anywhere and meeting a random person and saying 'Hi' and having a conversation about life. I love people.
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I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.
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My character in the first instalment of 'GOW' was very shy and reserved. It was completely different from 'Kahaani,' where I played a no-nonsense cop. And in the second instalment of 'GOW,' it is again very different.
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Pressure cookers are relatively inexpensive, they're in every kitchen store, your grandma probably had one, but a lot of people don't. A pressure cooker is interesting because by pressurizing the vessel, you're able to cook much hotter than the boiling point of water, and still have water be present.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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The one big, humongous, immense thing that we didn't change, that we didn't figure out how to deal with is, if men and women are both going to work throughout their lives, who's going to take care of the kids?
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Everyone has some kind of light inside them.
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It was the students who entered kindergarten in 2011 who are - and I am weighing my words carefully - the sacrificed generation. It is they who have paid a high price for the politics of yesterday - that is to say, the government of Mr. Fillon.
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Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.
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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
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I'm cooking 42 years, and I didn't know bananas are good for my brain.
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I want to direct films, ultimately. Hopefully I'll have a fantastic career in acting and then go on to do that. That's my dream; that's the ultimate goal.
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I think, Queen Victoria's diaries, I think you can get them if you go to the British Library.
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Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents.
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I need to go play football. I don't care about anything else.
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There was one thing my daddy wouldn't tolerate in any shape, form or fashion, and that was being unkind or rude to somebody. That was just very important to my folks. And as it turns out, that was a legacy that he left me that money can't buy, is how to be able to treat people.
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Whatever it is you love, and whatever it is that you want to do, that's what you should be doing.
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I feel it is my Christian duty to be at least as careful in my personal grooming, if not more so, than before my conversion. You may have dry hair and my habits may not be workable for you. But shampooing my hair twice a week is as much a part of my spiritual life as my daily quiet time.
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I usually kept everybody at arm's distance.
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Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.
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Je crois qu'il faut presque toujours un coup de folie pour bâtir un destin.
