Christopher Fry Quotes
The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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You don't make it anywhere without someone helping you out.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.
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In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.
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I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.
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Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.
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You have to make a lot of sacrifices, and the main thing you have to sacrifice is your privacy. It's funny because when I was growing up, my daddy was and still is an insurance agent in our home town. He couldn't go anywhere without somebody recognizing him or needing something from him.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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We lose things all the time. We lose ourselves every day. We lose our minds occasionally. But it's just a part of life, loss.
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The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can.
