"this was I and not yet I, this was the wife of the President of the United States and she took precedence over me; my personal like and dislikes must be subordinated to the consideration of those things which were required of her"

-- Grace Coolidge

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“The local-tone is the intrinsic value of a thing - excluding any effects of light. The local-tone of a common pearl is very nearly white; that of a lump of coal, nearly black.”
“Weâ€™re vampires,â€ he said. â€œNot fairies.â€ â€œSometimes Iâ€™m not so sure about that. You see that study your king hangs out in?â€ â€œHeâ€™s nearly blind.â€ â€œWhich explains why he hasnâ€™t hanged himself in that pastel train wreck.â€ â€œI thought you were bitching about the gloom-and-doom decorating?â€ â€œI free-associate.”
“I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.”
“I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.”
“Live in the moment, just do it - those are phrases thrown around by people who don't know what they mean. Just do it - it's idiotic. You could slap that slogan on a picture of Hitler and it would make as much sense. He did it, all right.”
“There's only so much you can do with an attorney on a show that's about New York policemen.”
“Words, do not have twins in every language. Sometimes they only have distant cousins, and sometimes they pretend that they are not even related.”
“Somebody who's learning how to ice skate for the first time would need skates, a helmet for head protection and elbow pads, because you do fall quite a bit.”

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