Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for 'National Geographic,' and they gave us a lot of film.
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.
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I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
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There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
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One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment - only you must first realize this.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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I am what some would say 'holy, and wholly other than you.' The problem is that many folks try to grasp some sense of who I am by taking the best version of themselves, projecting that to the nth degree, factoring in all the goodness they can perceive, which often isn't much, and then call that God. And while it may seem like a noble effort, the truth is that it falls pitifully short of who I really am. I'm not merely the best version of you that you can think of. I am far more than that, above and beyond all that you can ask or think.
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The Dumnonii, whose city or fortress was at Exeter, were an important people. They occupied the whole of the peninsula from the River Parret to Land's End. East of the Tamar was Dyfnaint, the Deep Vales; west of it Corneu, the horn of Britain.
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Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness.
