Charles Lamb Quotes
Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
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Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
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I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.
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Getting a beginner publishing deal really helped me gain the skills. I just kept writing and writing. You just take everything out of life and turn it into an idea or a melody or a song and find the best writers you can to write with that fit you and know what you want to do.
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When I first entered the corporate world, doing good and making money were seen as separate and contradictory threads. Challenging that notion set my career - and life - on a new course.
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I am really, I think, truly an easygoing, positive, fun person.
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Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
