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I entirely agree with you about the obscurity of Mrs Browning's line about the stars. It is far-fetched. She wanted to express something which she found beyond expression.

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• Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.

  

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• This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.

  

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• I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.

  

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• When it comes to boys and her weight, I think Ellenor is much more conservative than I am, and she has not had the dialogue I have had about my weight.

  

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• We did not become libertarians because we are altruists.

  

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• My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She writes very truthfully; sometimes I'm not sure if I've actually done things or just experienced them in her books.

  

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• She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.

  

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• My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.

  

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• I hired Tina Fey for 'SNL,' which was certainly a good match. She took off right away there.

  

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• My aunt in Texas, when she did the hazing things, they had girls swallow oysters. They'd wrap an oyster in dental floss, swallow them, and then pull them back up.

  

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• I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.

  

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• Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

  

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• I had a friend who was getting married. I said, 'You're getting married - I didn't know about all this!' She said, 'I need health benefits.'

  

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• Anna Wintour is the most powerful woman in the global fashion industry, the first lady of fashion. She's a politician; I'm a stylist. They are two very different jobs.

  

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• Lila can't be a model until she's at least 21. She is already a mini-me – it is scary. She already has her own beauty kit.

  

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• I read my sister's diary when I was 7. She was, I think, 13. It was awful to read it.

  

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• She had a yearning to lose herself in this noisy throng of people going about the business of staying alive.

  

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• I think Maura'is funnier than I am, wittier than I am, more intelligent than I am, and I think she's just floating me at this point.

  

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• Camila Cabello, she's great.

  

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• Getting the call from Ridley Scott made me think that sometimes you just need to go to work.

  

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• You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now.

  

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• I entirely agree with you about the obscurity of Mrs Browning's line about the stars. It is far-fetched. She wanted to express something which she found beyond expression.

  

  Marie Corelli
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