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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.
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My father was a logger. He cut timber and hauled it out of the woods and had a sawmill. They sawed it into lumber. And, you know, the mines needed things they call timbers and collars and so forth, and they used collars on the railroad track that they put the rails on. And he - that was his occupation, just a sawmill man and a logger.
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It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, ‘live always at the ‘edge of mystery’—the boundary of the unknown.’ But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea.
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I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
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The details are not the details. They make the design.
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Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
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There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing myself.
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London perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play and a story and a poem, without any trouble, save that of moving my legs through the streets... To walk alone through London is the greatest rest.
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To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
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I was excited to hear others talking of God. Most people in show business have some strong spirituality but don't talk about it openly.
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To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.
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. . . to walk alone in London is the greatest rest.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
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To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air.
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Mastership hath many shifts whereby it striveth to keep itself alive in the world. And now hear a marvel: whereas thou sayest these two times that out of one man ye may get but one man's work, in days to come one man shall do the work of a hundred men - yea, of a thousand or more: and this is the shift of mastership that shall make many masters and many rich men.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
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You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.
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You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served.
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I believe that there is good. I believe there is evil. Do I believe that they come from God who is watching us conduct myriad never-ending wars and looks benignly on because there's higher purpose to all of this? I don't think so.
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Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.
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We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
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What's interesting about science is that we're constantly discovering new things about the universe, about ourselves, about our bodies, about diseases, about the possibilities of the future. It's amazing. Science is one of the coolest things about being a human being - without a doubt.
