Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes
People little dream of how their affairs react on the body. There is a mental correspondence for every disease.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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I'm easily entertained.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
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It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
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Remember, people who peek through keyholes have to expect an occasional poke in the eye.
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Well, I don't really eat cereal that much because on Weight Watchers it's not worth the points.
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The Wahhabists are the boogeymen, the guys who will chop the head off any American they catch. And they will destroy Iraq without a second thought if they believe that the instability will benefit them.
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One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
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The very idea of having children brings out this deep revulsion in me.
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People little dream of how their affairs react on the body. There is a mental correspondence for every disease.
