Quotes 41 till 60 of 68.
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Learning to skip has brought control into her life. Whenever she feels all sad, she switches into this wholly happy gait, sliding, hopping, and sliding again; when doing this, it seems as though her head separates from her body, making her feel dizzy and emptied out of bad thoughts. Does anyone else know this trick, she wonders? Probably not, although her Mother sometimes smiles and waves from the window.
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Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem.
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Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.
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My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.
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My mother totally protected me as a model. She took me on every look-see, she was there on the set if I wanted her to be.
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My younger years of modeling were really just filled with fun trips. I was doing catalogues for Alexander's and Bloomingdale's.
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She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.
Source: The Marriage Plot (2011) 42 -
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
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Smoking... kills you, and if you are killed, you have lost a very important part of your life.
Source: Testimony at House of Representatives hearings on cigarette advertising, 25 June 1981 -
Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.
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That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? 'Tell me a story.' That’s how we understand who we are, where we come from. Stories are everything.
Source: Middlesex (2003) 197 -
The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen.
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The most rewarding thing is being on Broadway. I went into Cabaret as a replacement and was really challenged beyond anything I could have imagined.
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The older I get, the younger I feel. Growing up, I was always the kid, but I spoke like an adult and was in adult roles. I didn't feel like a kid. The older I get, I actually feel younger! Which is good. I always thought when you get older, you'll want to slow down, but I want to do even more.
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The recounting of a life is a cheat... even our own stories are obscenely distorted.
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The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.
Source: De zelfmoord van de meisjes (2008) -
The thing I'm the most proud of in my personal life is that my daughter actually thinks that I'm fabulous.
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The time has to be right and the heart willing.
Source: De zelfmoord van de meisjes (2008) 49 -
The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.
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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
Source: De stenen dagboeken (2008) 82
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