Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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I'm such a foodie, and I actually think I would rather lose my hearing than my taste.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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I don't think I tell stories of tragedy. I think I tell stories of love. Even though you're full of tears, I hope that you leave the theatre with your heart feeling like it's going to explode out of your chest. And yes, you've been through the tragedy, but it's ultimately hope that I think you're left with.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'
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I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
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I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play 'Blue Moon' in a hotel lobby.
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets.
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The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.
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Video games make more money than albums do. Video games make money like films do. So, the smart thing for independent artists is to look at TV and film licenses.
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Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.
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The Republicans find their faith imperiled by Barney Frank's marriage. There is always a shadow on the wall, a monster in the closet, a mysterious rustling in the teeming underbrush of the conservative Id.
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Caesar salad is one of my favourite lunch foods. You can shovel it in and talk at the same time.
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The only time we fail is when we stop trying.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
