James Joyce Quotes
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There's nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.
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No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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Whether it is Obamacare, the stimulus, Wall Street bailouts, the food safety bill - on vote after vote, Bill Nelson has chosen to side with Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and President Obama over the people of Florida.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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I have no evidence of any relationship between IRS and NSA.
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The best jokes resonate because they uncover ridiculousness in our daily lives, reveal the silliness - and sometimes sadness - of things we see every day.
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I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well.
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Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
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If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.
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Poitier opened the doors to so many artists, not just black artists. There is a line that goes from black to Latin to Asian with regards to roles.
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A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
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My parents wanted me to be a doctor. So I took up science, but then realised that my heart was not in it at all. The thought of treating ailing people was very depressing.
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No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
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I don't belong much anywhere.
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It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.
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What else does anyone have except for a collection of slightly painful memories?
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What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.
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I am committed to working with Speaker Hastert and the other members of the Illinois congressional delegation to do all that I can to ensure that Illinois' funding needs are adequately met.
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You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character.
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After 25 years sitting on my own in a room, I was looking for a more companionable job and wanted to work more collaboratively. I've also been very lucky in my career, with good advances and multibook deals. But there is some extent to which I worried that I was writing for the contract and not for the impulse of the thing itself.
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She would always be living her life backwards, she realized, trying to regain something perfect that she'd lost.
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The oaks of ald now they lie in peat yet elms leap where askes lay. (4.14-15)
