Mary Shelley Quotes
The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
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We were descended from royalty.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.
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My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.
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I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
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Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.
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What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point.
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Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way - pouty.
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I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.
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As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.
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I hate birthdays.
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The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body.
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You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.
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We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true.
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My advice to any teenager would be don't try too hard - just get on with it. That's what I did. Have fun; enjoy life.
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The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.