Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. ~Martin Cruz Smith
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I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing; my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes. ~Gary Kemp
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My husband and I go to Il Fico every Friday, and I get the whole-wheat pizza. I won't eat pizza anywhere else! ~Kelly Wearstler
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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Every decision you make is a mistake. ~Edward Dahlberg
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Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing. ~Carrie Fisher
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Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan. ~Proverb
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To silence another, first be silent yourself. ~Latin Proverb
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There is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference there is, is very important. ~William James
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that is part of the beauty of Athens; is that it is so off the map and there is no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ~Michael Stipe
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One person's craziness is another person's reality. ~Tim Burton
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Gossip is hardly uplifting. ~Ginger Rogers
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One man's trash is another man's treasure. ~English Proverb
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Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. ~Jane Austen
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One doctor makes work for another. ~English Proverb
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I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life. ~John Stamos
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Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. ~Benazir Bhutto
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Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you, not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again? ~Amy Tan
#quotes #amy-tan #family

I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. ~Cy Twombly
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s. ~Ellen Page
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult. ~Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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The way I look at it is that once you create a piece of art, and it's out in the world, there's nothing you can do about it. People can use it the way they want to. There's nothing you can do about it. All you can hope for is that people that are using it are using it with the best intent. ~David Lloyd
#quotes #david-lloyd #art #hope #reality