Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes
Infinite Spirit, open the way for my great abundance. I am an irresistible magnet for all that belongs to me by Divine Right.
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I made an album of healing music called 'Grace and Gratitude' that came from my soul.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.
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The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
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This is my life... I mean, maybe I have Rs 100 crore in the bank, sitting comfortably. If that increases to Rs 10,000 crore, what difference does it make to me.
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I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.
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This is an election year, and I think we're in desperate trouble and it's time for people to speak up and not pipe down. It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know.
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A lot of us who are creative and have all these great ideas just don't have the money to do it.
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I want my first son to be called 'Tommy.' It will sound great, Tommy Tomlinson
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The editors and the creators of 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette,' they are so good at casting and at finding these young, beautiful lunatics to go on the show.
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I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line.
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Infinite Spirit, open the way for my great abundance. I am an irresistible magnet for all that belongs to me by Divine Right.
