Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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My parents are actors, and I'm the oldest of my siblings - I have three younger sisters and a brother who's my best friend. We're a close-knit, complicated family, but we spend a lot of time together, even though we live in different houses. We're a rambunctious gang!

Maya Hawke

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My big dream was to work as a photographer for 'National Geographic.'

Steffi Graf

WorkDreamPhotographerBigNational

The tennis wasn't really very much on my mind, so it wasn't like I was thinking about it all the time.

Steffi Graf

TimeMindThinkingTennisLikeMuch

Sugar planting was the oil business of the eighteenth century, and Saint-Domingue was the Ancien Regime's Wild West frontier, where sons of impoverished noble families could strike it rich.

Tom Reiss

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The person I fear most in the last two rounds is myself.

Tom Watson

FearMyselfPersonTwoLastMost

Fortunately, the world is full of people with information compulsion who want to tell you their stories. They want to tell you things that you don't know. They're some of the greatest allies that any writer has.

Tom Wolfe

PeopleWorldYouInformationKnow

When it's a really dark emotional scene, you have to make the effort to shake it off, at the end of the day, before you go home to your kids and try to be a normal human being. You definitely want to make that effort to shake it off.

Matt Bomer

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You must trust your instinct, intuition and judgment.

Rouben Mamoulian

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Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players. So the amateur fantasists ended up creating some of the algorithms that Oakland GM Billy Bean's statisticians used to win games with less salary money available for star players.

Douglas Rushkoff

SportsMoneyWinLongCreatingWay

There are bridges that we have built not only between individual companies but also between associations. This will keep business and investments flowing.

Arancha Gonzalez

BusinessBridgesWillIndividual

I wanted to know what it would be like to get on a horse and ride all the way west to Europe and take a look back at my own culture through the eyes of a nomad.

Tim Cope

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I'd rather do a lot of movies than a TV series and do a lot of different roles than be stuck in one TV thing.

Noah Hathaway

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