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Mary Boykin Chesnut Quotes

I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: March 31, 1823 - November 22, 1886

Topics

Time Me Think Now Journal My Own

When Yelp first took off, our rankings on Google would fluctuate wildly.

Jeremy Stoppelman

Google First Off Would Our Took

The camera is the slave to the actor.

John Cassavetes

Camera Actor Slave

The price of self-empowerment is what I call it. Somebody who thinks outside the box.

Andrew McCarthy

Price Outside Box Call Somebody Who

I consider each performance to be an intimate conversation between me and the audience members.

Me Performance Conversation Audience

The wealth-income ratio in the United States has always been lower than in Europe. The main reason in the early years was that land values bulked less in the wide open spaces of North America. There was, of course, much more land, but it was very cheap.

America Values Early Land More Open

I wrote 'The Zombie Survival Guide' because I wanted to read it, and nobody else was writing it. All I've been doing with everything I've written is answering questions that I had.

Writing Questions Doing Survival

The truth is that the gossip-hounds in Tinsel Town and the cackling windbags at 'The View' don't want civility. They want catty (or dare I say it gay-ish) gossip and sensational headlines that provide them with an opportunity to hop on the bully pulpit.

Opportunity Truth Truth Is View Want

I am proud of my kids, but I also want to make my mom proud of me. I'm still a momma's girl at the heart of the situation.

Girl Heart I Am Me Mom Proud

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

Mikhail Bakunin

Freedom Lie Equality Political Want

Once you've made your first feature, you know what you can do wrong and how hard it is to shoot a feature. Before you do it, you just don't know how hard it is. Once you've done it, when you're writing a second one, it's almost like you're preparing, and it's almost holding you back.

Writing You Back Wrong Know Done

My main quarrel with liberalism is not that liberalism places great emphasis on individual rights - I believe rights are very important and need to be respected. The issue is whether it is possible to define and justify our rights without taking a stand on the moral and even sometimes religious convictions that citizens bring to public life.

Life Great Believe Stand Possible

The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular.

War Name Seem Still Given Operation

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