Laura Riding Quotes
Daisy was a consciously happy young woman without any of the usual endowments that make for conscious happiness, money apart. She was not pretty, she was not clever, she had no friends, no talents, nor even an imagination to make her think she was happy when she was really miserable. As she was never miserable, she had no need of an imagination.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.
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I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.
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I'm not super into sports.
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Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.
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One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.
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I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan - I have about 12 coffee mugs at home!
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.
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When they see those fourteen lights, they're looking at a miracle. And deep down, they feel that whatever's going to happen, there will be someone there to help them. And that fills them with hope.
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I don't think there's something inherently irreligious about comics.
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I've read that an average dog possesses a vocabulary of 200-300 words, which is enough for him to have his own Twitter account.
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I have played a lot of roles in my career where I'm the sexual interest. I'm always having to fight that.
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Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.
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I believe, for an actor, both the success of his film and awards are equally important.
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My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.
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I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.
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I'm good friends with Lee Westwood. Bubba, Rickie Fowler. A few of the top hitters.
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The moment you've convinced someone that you truly understand her dreams and feelings, mental and behavioral change becomes possible, and the foundation for a breakthrough has been laid.
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Daisy was a consciously happy young woman without any of the usual endowments that make for conscious happiness, money apart. She was not pretty, she was not clever, she had no friends, no talents, nor even an imagination to make her think she was happy when she was really miserable. As she was never miserable, she had no need of an imagination.
