Ella Woodward Quotes
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With great artists like Elvis, sometimes the songs weren't the greatest thing about him. When I tried to perform some of the songs, I noticed some of the tunes weren't all that brilliant, but it was the performance that sold them.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.
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'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.'
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.
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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.
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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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The simple idiot's advice I give to screenwriters who say they want to sell a screenplay is, 'Write good.'
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Normally, the law of nature is such that one who rises falls, and one who rises quickly falls as quickly. I don't know how the law of nature will work as far as Modi is concerned. But some time or the other, all bubbles burst. This bubble will also burst.
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I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout.
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Teaching does allow me to keep one foot in the youthful waters I tend to occupy in my novels, so I'm thankful for that. My students also remind me on a daily basis that the stories I collected during my district attorney days are actually interesting to people who haven't had that experience.
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There are no regrets in life, just lessons.
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Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
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You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.
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Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand.
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Healthy eating isn't supposed to be about self-denial; it's not a punishment.
