Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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I grew up in New York.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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Everything is a meaningless struggle against nothing and when people say that the world has become a better place that is a false development-optimism. Nothing exists which ever becomes better. Everything stays the same. Somehow, there is nothing. That is so sad. Nothing to come to. Everything is an illusion. A very sweet illusion.
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School prayer, abortion, and school busing are indeed controversial issues. I doubt that there ever will be complete agreement on the public-policy questions they raise.
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I have the luxury of being a little boy... To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea.
