Marianne Moore Quotes
I think books are chiefly responsible for my dogged self determined efforts to write; books & verisimilitude; I like to describe things.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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Don't wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary 'what if' scenarios dreamed up in a conference room.
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We are all losers in comparison to Malala Yousafzai. But we are not all geniuses. Like me.
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Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.
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It's been great having my little girl. It's like having a workout 24 hours a day. I don't need to go to the gym! I'm chasing after my daughter everywhere she goes.
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I think what's important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
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Sex is the best high. It's better than any drug. I want to die making love because it feels so good.
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I grew up in the Ukraine and then I went to Paris in 1996. I went there because there was a modeling agency that invited me there to work so I thought, 'Sure.'
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Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy's, the Actors' Chapel on New York's 49th Street, peal the tune of 'There's No Business Like Show Business.' If you walk the streets of the theatre district before a show and see the vast, enthusiastic lines it sounds like a calling: there is certainly no place like Broadway.
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I've got to be high class... Which is sad, because I like bars.
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In thirteen years, every aspect of the universe can change - ask a thirteen-year-old.
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If of their pleasures and desires no end be found;God to their cares and fears will set no bound.What would content you? Who can tell?Ye fear so much to lose what you have gotAs if ye liked it well.Ye strive for more, as if ye liked it not.
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For a building that is supposedly a symbol of love, it has generated a lot of anger. Or rather, some people have been angered by what others have said about it, and have felt called on to defend its honour.
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Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but it's good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.
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The whole world is like the human body with its various members. Pain in one member is felt in the whole body.
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With a penetrating vision you can dissipate the obstruction, remove the obstacle, dissolve the wrong condition.
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If she could have died...if she could have disappeared forever...but the solid surface of things refused to dissolve around her, and her body, her hateful hermaphrodite's body, continued in its stubborn, lumpen way, to live.
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For me, healthy eating and exercising is something I work on constantly. I'm not the most disciplined dieter. I try to eat a lot of fruit and vegetables but sometimes late at night I tend to have fast-food meals - and that's where I get myself into trouble! So I'm not in the best shape I could be, but I'm still healthy and comfy.
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I think books are chiefly responsible for my dogged self determined efforts to write; books & verisimilitude; I like to describe things.
