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Peter De Vries Quotes

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 27, 1910 - September 28, 1993

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Love Marriage Live Character Fall

With prurient absorption and only minimal risk, we can pretend to be the subject of the lead article on the front page of the Style section of our local newspaper for as long as it takes to finish our morning coffee.

Morning Style Coffee Long Page Risk

When I was trying to get into acting, to have been a model was about as low as you could get in the acting profession. But that wasn't sexism, it was snobbery, which I knew and took very humbly.

Trying You Acting Sexism Low Get

I always leave a box of unsalted almonds in my house. A handful of those are a good snack that should keep you satisfied.

Jenna Ushkowitz

Good You House Snack Box Leave

Because I sidestepped all the stereotypical roles, in a way I've made a career out of not being Asian - a lot of my roles weren't written as Asian - so there's an impulse in me that wants to take a U-turn and play a very grounded, real Asian character, maybe an immigrant.

Character Me Career Play Way Real

Obama's record on climate issues is not all bad.

Bad Issues Climate Record Obama

I've always had this theory that if you're good at something, you should do it.

Good You Always Theory Something

The thing about LeBron is he's very unselfish, right? So he can pass the ball.

Metta World Peace

Right Ball Pass Unselfish He Very

When I was small, I thought I was just cooler than my mom because of how foreign she is. She's really foreign. You'd think it would kill her to get store-bought snacks, she's that foreign.

Mom Small Think Thought You She

I'm literally an independent. Apolitical. So that I am not always going to be with the Left's perceived interests or the Right's perceived interests.

I Am Independent Right Always Going

Training, and every morning I have to take my dogs out into the forest. That's all I'm doing. I'm staying out of everything else. All other things that can take out my concentration and my energy from the training.

Morning Training Energy Forest Doing

Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to its crust, he may penetrate into all its secrets.

Man Secrets Earth Boundaries May He

I hear so many startups talking about how they can raise VC instead of questioning whether they need it in the first place.

Talking Place First Need Questioning

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