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Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.
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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.
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I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion.
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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
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I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
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I tried to like it. For me, it was like being smacked around the head by a piece of IKEA furniture: it hurts, but you've got to admire the workmanship.
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I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.
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I'm okay. Nobody's bothering me. Everyone's very kind, and very polite. I don't feel like my whole life changed.
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I've never been naturally fashion conscious. I'm the kind of person who sees a whole outfit in a magazine, runs out and buys it but looks like a clown.
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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.
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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
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It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.
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