Ely Culbertson Quotes
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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Our main source of economy is agriculture. What we should do is to use the oil money that we have today to re-fuel agriculture. And so agriculture will be the backbone of the economy of South Sudan.
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I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
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You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play it.
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My workout involves cardio, jogging, and yoga as well. I am a firm believer of yoga and meditation.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
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I really like the old stuff that I cut my musical teeth on, and I loved it when the industry was just like that, without really a genre. Today, country radio's more aimed at a demographic than a genre. It just softens everything.
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I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.
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People always say, 'How is it to be so successful?' I'm not successful yet. Richard Branson is successful. That's successful. Michael Jackson was successful. U2 was successful. I'm just a guy, doing okay. But I'm a happy guy doing okay.
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If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.
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Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
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Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
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When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside. It reminds me to live in the moment.
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The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player.
