"Life is not lost -dying; life is lost minute -minute, day -dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways."

-- Stephen Vincent Benet

#Life Quotes #Time Quotes #Dying Quotes

“I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge.”

Source : "I prefer birdsong to chatter". Interview with Helen Birch, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2005.
“I'm also really fulfilled by having a production company and producing movies, and learning about how that works and happens. It's a totally, entirely separate skill set and it's one that I happen to also enjoy. So, I intend to cultivate all of those things until I can't anymore. That's my goal. I love to be challenged and busy, and so far, so good. I'm just going to do whatever I can to continue to encourage that.”
“I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable.”
“By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium -- by that same right Germany takes over Schleswig; it is the right of civilization as against barbarism, of progress as against stability. Even if the agreements were in Denmark's favor -- which is very doubtful-this right carries more weight than all the agreements, for it is the right of historical evolution.”
“Our method of proclaiming salvation is this: to point out to every heart the loving Lamb, who died for us, and although He was the Son of God, offered Himself for our sins ... by the preaching of His blood, and of His love unto death, even the death of the cross.”
“You may be sure that in this new international system, the American citizen will count for precious little.”
“Joseph Campbell said the privilege of a lifetime is being yourself. That's his feeling. And I guess it's mine too.”
“When I was in my freshman year at college I took some acting classes and found that I fell in love with it again.”

Source : "Interview: Mary-Kate Mary-Kate Olsen" by Alun Palmer, www.mirror.co.uk. August 29, 2008.

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