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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My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.
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Home in bed listening to the rain getting ready to order a pizza. Sounds like a song til the last part.
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Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.
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But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresistible good humour. For me, 'Major Barbara' is the greatest of all the plays in that it starts from the rational and proceeds to the ecstatic in a spectacular way, and leaves you very confused if you cling to Euclidean logic.
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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.
