Christopher Fry Quotes
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.
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There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
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I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I just have an inability to lie.
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I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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For me, consciousness is non-local, not limited to the body, and can exist independent of it.
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I've been a fan of BET since I was a kid, growing up watching the awards, thinking that one day I would be there.
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The New Right, in many cases, is doing nothing less than placing a heretical claim on Christian faith that distorts, confuses, and destroys the opportunity for a biblical understanding of Jesus Christ and of his gospel for millions of people.
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I have heard over and over again that the drilling business is a dangerous business, and death is an expected part of the game, but I've also heard of the way that safety violations, human and environmental laws, and a concern for the local culture are flaunted in pursuit of money.
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You never say and do the things you wish you had said or done when someone close to you may not be around in awhile. Closure is impossible; that's the heart of the grief you will carry with you for the rest of your life.
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Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
