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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"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away."
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
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After 9/11, new security measures not only added longer lines and earlier check-ins, but took away our privilege of carrying knitting needles or our favorite moisturizer on board with us. Although we want to be safe when we fly, in some ways it all just adds to the misery of our experience.
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Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.
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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.
