Marianne Williamson Quotes
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
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No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.
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'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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It was not love at all, really, but rather a yearning for the honor and respect of the other men that held them. Pride, then... Indeed, all their connection with each other at this moment was tied up with the respect they felt they were earning by their actions.
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Death is not painful. It is the most beautiful experience you will have.
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To me, fashion is ceaselessly fascinating because it is an expression of self.
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The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.
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Joy is more infectious than leprosy.
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Living meaningfully is what brings joy.
