"There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hand. I love a broad margin to my life."
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"The experience of every past moment but belies the faith of each present."
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"Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health."
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"In sane moments we regard only the facts, the case that is."
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"That's what acting is - it's about having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives."
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"Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies."
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"Romance cannot be put into quantity production-the moment love becomes casual, it becomes commonplace."
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"You can't grow if you're constantly defined by this collection of frozen moments that you keep returning to. And if you can't grow, you're not alive."
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"It is so easy to "calibrate" -that is, given the pressures on a smaller company to redefine in less ambitious terms- that which you are in business to accomplish. The moment this happens the downward spiral begins."
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"I have had a number of less-than-enviable moments in my life when dealing with other people. I won't attempt to blunt that by saying I am not the only one."
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"Thank you for touching me. Some of the only moments worth living were spent with you. Not you especially, the collective you."
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"If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment."
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"Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment."
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"God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!"
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"From the moment fear begins I have ceased to fear."
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"Do you believe in a future everlasting life? No, not in a future everlasting but in an everlasting life here. There are moments, you reach moments, and time comes to a sudden stop, and it will become eternal."
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"Her eyes, walnut brown and shaded by fanned lashes, met mine. Held for a moment. Flew away."
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"At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent."
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"these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them."
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"Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours."
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