Bill Dedman Quotes

After Huguette Clark died in 2011 at age 104, 19 relatives challenged her will, claiming she was mentally ill and had been defrauded by her nurse, attorney and accountant.

Bill Dedman

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I'm embarrassed that people will know that I can't ride a bicycle. For years, I have been feigning bad ankles and saying I wasn't in the mood for a bike ride.

Jill Soloway

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Television is taking over the Internet.

Jeff Bewkes

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Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

Ambrose Bierce

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I try to take moments to get brain food - I read, I listen to talk radio - and fill my own self with learning.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

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You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.

Robbie Robertson

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I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off.

Ronald Biggs

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I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary filmmakers in their category. I just see us doing some work.

Martin Scorsese

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Units were coming to combat with DCGS because it was their tool kit, so to speak, but they basically had it boxed up and parked in a corner. They were using off-the-shelf stuff they were having to buy prior to coming into the theater.

Michael T. Flynn

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Spare functional furniture, in my opinion, is the genius of 20th-century design.

Luca Guadagnino

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I was in my senior year of high school when I read 'Notes From Underground' by Dostoyevsky, and it was an exhilarating discovery. I hadn't known up until that moment that fiction could be like that. Fiction could say these things, could be unseemly, could be unsettling and distressing in that particular way, that immediate and urgent way.

Claire Messud

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I don't shop as much as a lot of people but I do like designer clothes.

Philippa Gregory

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I grew up in the U.K. and now reside in the United States, and my family is from Ghana.

Philomena Kwao

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