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.
Quotes to Explore
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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'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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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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I look at myself as someone who has been very lucky - my job is also what I enjoy most in the world, and I can make my life doing it.
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When I was a kid, I loved figure skating. But in Mexico, they kind of push you toward hockey.
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It was a fight for a very long time. After the end of the first season, all that was done.
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Firemen can do almost everything. You already trust them in life-threatening situations; why not let them help you with your everyday problems, too?
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I actually think, as unusual as it might sound, that working in the White House is an extraordinary life.
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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.
