Yvette Mimieux Quotes
There are tribes in Africa who believe that a camera steals a little part of your soul, and in a way, I think that's true about living your private life in public. It takes something away from your relationships; it cheapens them.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.
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I brought Yoko Ono to New York and gave her her first job there. I was editing a magazine called 'Film Culture.'
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Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.
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Absolutely the greatest challenges in dealing with discrimination are with the larger group who needs to consider how they think and act in everyday life. It remains the possibility of the majority to accept the call to change.
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I suspect that perfect happiness is not possible for me. I suppose if I was ever selected for eternal life - the moment I was informed - that would bring me the closest.
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There are tribes in Africa who believe that a camera steals a little part of your soul, and in a way, I think that's true about living your private life in public. It takes something away from your relationships; it cheapens them.
