Philip Gibbs Quotes
During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front.
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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I don't do negative things.
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You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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Writers are so important.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I didn't like playing with dolls; I didn't like getting dressed up. A lot of my friends and people I went to school with were into fashion and their clothes, so I lacked a bit of self-belief and confidence... I wasn't really comfortable.
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True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
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Although I have lived in Manhattan since 1992, for the better part of two decades I have remained in blissful oblivion of all matters sportif.
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Serve yourself, put the food away, then eat.
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We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
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I remember being about eight and watching 'Pollyanna' with Hayley Mills. I looked at my mum and said, 'Mum, I want to be Pollyanna.' She said, 'You're going to have to make yourself cry if you want to be an actress.' So I turned my head away, and when I turned it back I was in floods of tears.
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Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.
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And it is very much lamented,... That you have no such mirrors as will turn Your hidden worthiness into your eye That you might see your shadow.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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It is hard to imagine two more final endings to the 'war on terror' than the popular revolts against the authoritarian regimes in the Middle East and the death of bin Laden.
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Slave narratives had their greatest influence on public opinion and on literature in the U.S. between 1830 and 1860. After Reconstruction's defeat, their urgency of tone was replaced by the softer one of reminiscence.
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During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front.
