James A. Garfield Quotes
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I have the most supportive parents and family in the entire world.
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.
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Notice the times in your life when you go above and beyond simply because you care so much.
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I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'
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The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.
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Everybody had their fans and they were fans of all of them.
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Here's something I probably shouldn't be saying: I never listen to my soundtrack albums because I can't stand it. It's just stereo. When I write, I write in surround. My life is in surround.
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Real Texans believe in looking out for each other. We believe in honoring our mothers and fathers and keeping our smallest residents - our children - healthy.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.
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They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.
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I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.
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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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How can you be inspired by Cameron and Miliband? These guys are just drabness personified.
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The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
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I am miserable when everything is in order and quiet. Seriously, it's hard for me when I can go home quietly, go to sleep, and get up in the morning without fear and tension.
