James Galway Quotes
I have to report to those of you who think diamonds make a difference that I cannot tell what it is. Seriously, as you all know, they make no difference at all. They just make the flute look a little more special.
Quotes to Explore
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I'm wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job.
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I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.
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After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.
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My parents aren't married. And one of the reasons why they never got married is because they had been married before, and they liked it the way it was. They didn't feel like they needed a piece of paper to be committed. So for me, I know that marriage is not a golden ticket.
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
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If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
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Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.
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As a general rule, governments are unlimited in their powers. All free governments, perhaps all other governments, are entitled in some shape or other to make laws and to repeal or amend them.
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Yoga is just good for you.
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You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.
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The most important quality in a partner is a sense of humour.
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I can remember when I was 24, and I broke up with my first serious girlfriend for the first time. She was a very nice person, but she had a little bit of a tendency toward melodrama... Her response was to take the key to my apartment off of her key chain and hand it back to me.
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The big issues, the things that scar Scotland - the least of them is whether we should have a border at Gretna Green or not.
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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
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I haven't even watched that many movies; I'm, like, a weird actor.
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I have to report to those of you who think diamonds make a difference that I cannot tell what it is. Seriously, as you all know, they make no difference at all. They just make the flute look a little more special.
