Jane Austen Quotes
Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me. I should infinitely prefer a book.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.
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The opposite of an underminer is a supporter. When colleagues are supportive, they go out of their way to be givers rather than takers, working to enhance our productivity, make us look good, share ideas, and provide timely help.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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I have never sought the reason why I write.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.
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A potential person is not a person, any more than an acorn is an oak tree. I don't think women should have to give birth just because a sperm met an egg.
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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When it comes to investing, you are your own worst enemy.
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I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
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I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.
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If you're not a confident person, pretend to be one.
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But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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When you think about where are you going to find that big love of your life, you seldom think it's someone you already know. You think it's someone you're yet to meet.
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A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
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It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes.
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I watched 'Billy Madison' maybe 80 times. It's my favourite movie. Watched it, like, a million times. My brother and sister watched it with me all the time.
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Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me. I should infinitely prefer a book.
