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Marya Mannes Quotes

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 14, 1904 - September 13, 1990

Topics

Dreams Romantic Reality End Greed

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

John Archibald Wheeler

Nature Time Way Everything Happening

My father liked doing carpentry work, construction work, in the summer vacation. And so my mother designed a cabin, a log cabin, like a - it was like a Swiss chalet. I was twelve years old, and my father and I built it on a rocky point peninsula out into Lake Superior.

Work Father Mother Vacation Doing

The video aside, 'P.D.A' is a song about when you really love somebody, you just can't resist wanting to show that out in public sometimes.

Love Song You Sometimes Out Just

The news media tends to act like the kids on a young soccer team. We all follow the ball as it moves from one side of the field to the next - like a kids' soccer game. And the kid who ends up scoring a goal was the one who's off to the corner by himself just waiting for the opportunity.

Opportunity Waiting Team Game Media

Shamelessness is a wonderful part of the character.

Stephen Colbert

Character Wonderful Part

I've always been fascinated by the military, the discipline they have and the sacrifices they make to defend the country. It's something I've always been interested in.

Discipline Country Military Defend

A lot of people get really seduced by demos of the next display technology. I myself fell under that spell for about 20 years.

Mary Lou Jepsen

Technology Myself People Next Years

In print, people can do anything to you. Everything you do is picked apart. People love it; they're waiting for you to make a mistake.

Love Mistake Waiting People You

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

Death Suicide Trouble Run True Away

I watched 'A Chorus Line' over and over when I was growing up, to the point that I was able to recite the entire movie.

Growing Up Growing Over Line Up

I do enjoy Singapore very much.

Enjoy Singapore Much Very

I graduated in '91, so the '90s for me were very much the first years out of school, so I can't really look at that decade as independent of my own experience of my 20s, really.

Experience School Me Look My Own

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