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 had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
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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 like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.
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I do get stopped a bit now and then, but I can go to the supermarket and on the Tube without being noticed. It's usually me that gets starstruck, especially by TV stars.
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I don't think there's something inherently irreligious about comics.
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An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.
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What are we fighting for? Don't ask me I don't give a damn.
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When I am happy on the pitch, it's because everything is going well off it.
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Doing charity work is always cool. It's always a good thing.
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The problem with people who are afraid of imagination, of fantasy, is that their world becomes so narrow that I don't see how they can imagine beyond what their senses can verify. We know from science that there are entire worlds that our senses can't verify.
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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.
