James A. Michener Quotes
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
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In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
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I think I'm a bit odd.
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Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.
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I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Time was God's first creation.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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I think I'm like a free spirit.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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Looking beautiful isn't just about what you apply on your face. It's the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I don't drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good.
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A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
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On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.
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The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
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Moving to one show each season will significantly help to simplify many aspects of our business. Maintaining two separate, disconnected calendars has been a result of tradition rather than practicality.
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No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!
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youth looks at its world and age looks through it; youth must get busy on problems whose outlines stand single and strenuous before it, while age can, with luck, achieve a cosmic private harmony unsuited for action as a rule.
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I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
