Perfect Quotes
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One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra orchid... One wants... But one so seldom gets what one wants, does one?
Tony Kushner
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You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.
Jaclyn Smith
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To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Saint Augustine
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if you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago. ... you must write to the human heart, the great consciousness that all humanity goes to make up. Otherwise what might be strength in a writer is only crudeness, and what might be insight is only observation; sentimemnt falls to sentimentality - you can write about life, but never write life itself.
Sarah Orne Jewett
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Consciously picking the right script after a long period of wait helped me grab a perfect film in the rom-com genre.
Yami Gautam
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I usually make up stories for my kids.I like to tell them stories and make up any kind of crazy to involve them in characters. The kind of fairytales I don't like are the ones with happy endings, where there's just good and evil and things are perfect. I think when there's a good story for children it has a moral tale, so that's what I try to teach my kids.
Angelina Jolie
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I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten pages in, I've already blown it, limited it, made it less, marred it. That's very discouraging. I hate the book at that point.
Joan Didion
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In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman's body, Heaven.
G. Willow Wilson
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The perfect antidote to dark, cold and creepy is light, warm and cozy.
Candice Olson
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I had never seen a perfect game or no-hitter thrown.
Phil Humber
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There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.
Salman Rushdie
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The home phone is relatively cheap, incredibly reliable, and - if you buy the right phone - will work for years without replacement. Oh, and far as I can tell, a home phone won't give you brain cancer. In a perfect world, the hard line should have become a platform for building out an entire app ecosystem for the home. And yet... it didn't.
John Battelle
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I auditioned for 'Girls' the fall after I graduated from Yale. The show has been amazing - as close to perfect as it gets!
Allison Williams
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I'm a human, and I'm multidimensional. If I was the perfect form of anything, I'd be boring. If I was a free spirit all the time, I would be boring; I would lack depth. If I was dark and enigmatic all the time, then I would lack relatability.
Halsey
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To be premature is to be perfect.
Oscar Wilde
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The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.
Carl Sagan
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If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.
Yao Ming
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As a young girl, there are pressures that come with any career, but I decided when I got into this I didn't want to be perfect.
Kelsea Ballerini
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
Dan O'Brien
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I don't think I've found the perfect job for me, but I know what I like, so that's halfway there, right?
Colleen Haskell
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I slept in Uday Hussein's bed - that was just so strange. Went to Saddam's palace, was in a mortar attack - crazy stuff. And like three days later you're back in traffic on Sunset Boulevard. It's all kind of behind you, which is kind of perfect for a guy like me because I can take that and turn it into quite the tale.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
Kage Baker
