Marie Helvin Quotes
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
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Before I got married, I dated the gamut.
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I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
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Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money.
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I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them.
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The Federal Reserve's job is to do the right thing, to take the long-run interest of the economy to heart, and that sometimes means being unpopular. But we have to do the right thing.
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From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.
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Men are intimidated by me: I very rarely get asked out.
