Agnes Bruckner Quotes
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.
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If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.
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I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.
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Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.
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I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.
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We sold OkCupid to Match in January of 2011. In September of 2012, I became CEO of all of Match, which is the operating segment of IAC that contains all of the dating properties.
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple.
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Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
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I always say to my agents, you go through one of these big kind of movies, everyone makes money, but like, I said, 'I'm the one who's gotta go make it, and if I don't have my heart in it, and it's like a love affair, I'm not going to do a good job. Then, and I don't want to just get paid. I just, I don't want to do that.'
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The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference.
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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
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When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I'm proud to be in this company that way.
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Money is just the poor man's credit card.
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A lot of times, in the beginning of my career, I put pressure on myself just because I wanted to perform so well. I just wanted to be perfect.
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There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.
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Friends are very understanding when you tell them in April that you can see them next September, but there is a limit to how long you can go on like that.
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When a grown man reaches forty, we change him for an old one. He has completely disappeared. There's only the most superficial resemblance between the two of them. Nothing is handed on from one to the other.
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Anytime I'm at a club or a party, I'm dancing from beginning to end.
