Agnes Smedley Quotes
Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.
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Our suspicions are being confirmed that Nashi will serve as a cover for storm brigades that will use violence against democratic organisations.
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I love Lancome's L'Absolu Rouge lipstick, as it lasts. Unless you spend the whole night snogging, you won't need to reapply it.
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I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
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To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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I'm not really into weight training.
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I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.
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It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
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I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it negative or positive, it has enforced and reinforced my life in some aspect.
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Warnings about children being overscheduled, racing from one enriching activity to the next, first surfaced in the early 20th century.
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I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.
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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
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I'm a big believer that your life is basically a sum of all the choices you make. The better your choices, the better opportunity to lead a happy life.
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I really love New York, but I have to say, the humidity during the summer is a nightmare for a cartoonist. Not only am I sweating in my studio, my bristol board is curling up, the drafting tape is peeling off the board, my Rapidograph pens bleed the minute I put them to paper... it's a disaster.
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When your cup is empty, you do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the opportunity to fill it again.
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In real life, I tend to yell at people a lot. Not because I'm bossy or mean, but because I'm frustrated.
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But it seemed that for every competent man or woman there was an incompetent man above. It was the law of trickle-up irresponsibility. And the competent man and woman spent so much time manipulating the incompetent men they had neither the time nor the motivation to do their jobs properly.
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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
