Vera Brittain Quotes
The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life.
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More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.
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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
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Not to sound bad, but some girls are dumb. It's because they spend so much of their life trying to have the right look. On the other hand, some girls are just really smart. There are girls you can have conversations with that are healthy conversations. You can argue real life issues and solve problems together. That is what makes a woman sexy.
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I always separated sports and my personal life.
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The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.
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We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.
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Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
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What has never changed, what is always present and what is, in the end, what sustains us is that energy that I talk about in 'Like Water for Chocolate...' that loving energy. Without that, I wouldn't have had the strength to keep going and enjoy life.
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A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.
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At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood.
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
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My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.
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I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
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I gather inspiration from all aspects of my life and things I see: love, heartache, mistakes, hopes, regrets, successes and faith. And it helps to have a wild imagination.
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Fortunately, I have been very healthy all my life and very active all my life and have enjoyed an active lifestyle.
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Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.
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Well you know, I've been into music my whole life, so to be able to put an album together with some of that music was awesome.
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Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you. When you occupy it, step into it consciously, you live it.
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I have never been in a violent movie or television show.
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I never pass a Dairy Queen without stopping. I cannot stand tucked-in sheets. I was once a contestant on 'The Price is Right.'
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The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life.
