Elizabeth Goudge Quotes
They gazed at her with awe, feeling to the full that medieval reverence for someone obviously touched in the head.
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Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world and can write about it with gusto and fervor and passion.
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I'm happiest when I'm moving.
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YouTube, as longer form, the content you make there has to keep you entertained for three minutes - or five minutes.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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Acting to me is real life - I don't act.
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I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.
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I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.
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It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor.
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I think sometimes people can get lost in the bigger special effects, science fiction, robot stuff, and those are cool and fun to watch, too, but I think it's so important to sometimes step back and watch something that's about life and human interaction.
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When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and I think that's really important.
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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
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Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.
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Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.
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I get stoned, I can't get home, I'm calling long distance on a public saxophone. My head is aching, my back is breaking, feel I got run over by Captain Coconut and his dog named Rover.
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We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age when no book was duplicated until someone took the pains to copy it out by hand, is obviously no longer suited to ’the needs of society’, or to the conservation of learning. The weeder is supremely needed if the Garden of the Muses is to persist as a garden.
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After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years.
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My favorite band at the moment is the Dresden Dolls, they're from Boston. It's a guy and a girl. She plays piano and he plays the drums and she also sings. You can find them on the web they're incredible.
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Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.
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They gazed at her with awe, feeling to the full that medieval reverence for someone obviously touched in the head.
