Lascelles Abercrombie Quotes
The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.Lascelles Abercrombie
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
C. S. Forester -
As you get older, and this is a young man's game, and people say, 'Well, there's no way I can keep up running the way I'm running; there's no way my arm is going to stay as strong as it is.' It's the challenge of trying to stay in my tip-top shape year in and year out so I can keep playing the way I want to play.
Aaron Rodgers -
I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
Zoe Saldana -
I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track.
Yohan Blake -
One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
Barack Obama -
I have fabulous children.
Victoria Osteen
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As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.
Mackenzie Davis -
The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2 -
I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.
J. G. Ballard -
It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
Olin Miller -
Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam.
Abdurrahman Wahid -
And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.
Tanya Tucker
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
Larry Gelbart -
When we shot 'The Lord of the Rings,' we had special permission to film in wild areas of New Zealand that could be accessed only by helicopter. They would drop us off and we would work all day, and they'd pick us up and take us out again.
Viggo Mortensen -
I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
I think I'm a soulful singer.
Katey Sagal -
I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.
Taylor Swift -
I got a manager, and I thought, since I was going out on auditions, I should do this for a living. Then there was this moment on set when I realized I was having a lot of fun, and I really wanted to do this forever.
Kara Hayward
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I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.
Olivia De Havilland -
Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.
Earl Weaver -
I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.
Wendell H. Ford -
I'm not saying I like to be kicked, but it's good for me to feel I am in the game. Definitely. A motivation.
Eden Hazard -
The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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