Mary Hunter Austin Quotes

What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.

Mary Hunter Austin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 9, 1868 - August 13, 1934

Topics

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I don't want to see anyone leaving single tonight. I want everyone to leave impregnated.

Joel Madden

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In my most psychotic stages, I imagine myself chewing on sidewalks and bulging and swallowing sunlight and clouds.

Andy Behrman

MyselfCloudsSunlightImagineMost

Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.

Andrew Jackson

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I think what helps me when I'm working on a play, any play, is the degree to which the writer has truly visualized, and then fulfilled, the vision of the world that he or she is creating.

Jeffrey DeMunn

VisionMeWorldThinkCreatingPlay

Words are really beautiful, but they're limited. Words are very male, very structured. But the voice is the netherworld, the darkness, where there's nothing to hang onto. The voice comes from a part of you that just knows and expresses and is.

Jeff Buckley

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Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don't have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.

Jeff Bezos

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I like my denim to fit a bit relaxed and feel a bit worn in.

Stella Maxwell

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In the end, it's like that: The more I possess the ball, the more dominant we play, and the more often we win.

Toni Kroos

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You know, we're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected.

Robert Caro

PowerDemocracyYouKnowBeing

I remember I was unsure about doing 'Shameless.' I'd never acted in anything so commercial. I read the script in the garden with my mum, Mary. She said it's filthy dirty, but she said these people have love and sex and nothing else. That made me take the role.

Anne-Marie Duff

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In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

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I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

Philip Johnson

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