May 2010
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Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.
– GK Chesterton (Via: Canond) (via quote-book)
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Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.
– GK Chesterton (Via: Canond) (via quote-book)
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Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream...
– Tom Clancy (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
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One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.
– Oscar Wilde (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book)
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Margaret Eckford, Produced & Mixed by my Husband →
Oh, and his partner helped. You know…a little.
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Me, too.
EBONY: So, it's smoother sailing ahead?
DIAHANN CARROLL: Who knows, darling? It's life. (laughs) I could move to Arizona, sit on a porch swing and look at the sky and still end up in trouble.
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My Thoughts Exactly
EBONY MAGAZINE: Are there any particular kinds of roles that you're interested in playing?
DIAHANN CARROLL: I'm interested in playing whatever is well written, is challenging to an actor and does not involve nudity (laughs)
(Ok - so she probably said the nudity part because she's 74 but this is exactly my thesis statement as an actor.)
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
– Plato (via little-fighter) (via quote-book)
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An older, European (I think) woman who frequents our store (just to say “Hi” and call us “sexy”) came in today. Her name is Mona.
I noticed she was wearing a big, beautiful sapphire pendant surrounded by diamonds and I complimented her on it. Then I saw the earrings. And the bracelet. I said, “These are incredible!”
And they were - they were almost black in...
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….the model was “secretive, mysterious, contradictory, evasive,...
– Wikipedia on Donyale Luna
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Someone from Bad Robot's take on the Finale
thememegeneration:
This is making the rounds, but in case you haven’t seen it yet, read on. Originally from here, but the full text is below.
Good stuff on here! I can finally throw in my two cents! I’ve had to bite my tongue for far too long. Also, hopefully I can answer some of John’s questions about Dharma and the “pointless breadcrumbs” that really, weren’t so pointless …
First … The Island:...
Education, in a way, dislocates very many people from their natural talents.
– Sir Ken Robinson (via austinkleon)
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Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel...
– Mother Teresa (via thresca) (via quote-book)
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that...
– Eleanor Roosevelt (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
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Vaccines Don't Make Kids Succeptible to Austism →
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To Those Who Never Saw Lost
No one cares.
It’s not something to feel proud about.
It doesn’t make you better than people who watched it. It just makes you someone who never saw it.
And those of us who did, didn’t waste six years of our lives. If we wasted anything, which we didn’t, it was 121 hours over six years. How much tv did you watch? Just as much or more, I’m sure.
So let us have...
I like when people use the ‘horrifying’.
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In life, and in the kitchen, the best things that happen to you are not as a...
– Nigella Lawson (via doublebagel) (via quote-book)
Take that, Destiny!!
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