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I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women. -Ruth Benedict |
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I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in...
What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in.
Source: On not lying about...
We grow old more through indolence, than through age.
Source: Maxims, 1660-1680, in...
How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity...
Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
Source: In Words of...
At one time I thought he wanted to be an actor. He had certain qualifications, including no money and a total lack of...
I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.
When you handle yourself, use your head; when you handle others, use your heart.
A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
. . . I saw people willing to compromise themselves, or change themselves, to acquire what they thought was important....
Every day, every day I hear
enough to fill
a year of nights with wondering.
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.
Source: In An Uncommon Scold,...
A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.
I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on...
He bore no grudge against those he had wronged.
Source: On film executive Jack L....
. . . we got our lungs from Daddy, and we exercised them early and often during those years up in the hills gathering...
If I fall, look out for the crash. There won't be anyone left standing.
Source:...
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
Source: Mary Crawford, in...