Phil Ochs Quotes
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.
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Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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The world is always terrible.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.
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I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.
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Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the uproar of empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope. Some will say that this hope lies in a nation; others in a man. I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished, by millions of solitary individuals whose and works every day negate frontiers and the crudest implications of history.
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The natural instinct is to join in the chorus of conflict, to make your voice louder, your point bigger, and your position stronger. But we will not solve the significant and real problems our country faces if we cannot bring ourselves to embrace a mindset of grace.
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Men are not sent to hell because of being murderers or liars, they are sent to hell because they are unrighteous.
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I'm gonna give all I've got to give Cross my heart, and I hope to live.
