Shania Twain Quotes
Horses calm me. I love being around them. They smell great, they are beautiful to look at, they are loving, demanding, temperamental, and they settle you.
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me.
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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I know politics; I know the media.
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My vacations last one hour. Then I get bored, impatient.
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I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.
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I imagine the life of an atheistic praying mantis to be rather torturous.
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In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not.
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I worked at The Old Globe Theater under the great baton of Craig Noel. One of the great theater heroes that we have. He was so great and so inspirational. I think I did 'Antony and Cleopatra' and 'The Taming of the Shrew'. I lived in Ocean Beach, and my rent was $140 a month.
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Horses calm me. I love being around them. They smell great, they are beautiful to look at, they are loving, demanding, temperamental, and they settle you.
