James Nasmyth Quotes
From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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It's not that that I'm not comfortable being naked, but when you grow up fat, you can't take away the shame or embarrassment even though you're a model. It's not just erased.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.
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When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.
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When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
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Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.
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Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.
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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.
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We played together for so long and we got to the point where our styles blended together. Even today, sometimes I'll hear our records and I'm not really sure who played what. And we took a bunch of acid together too.
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There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.
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I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.
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What is a superhero? They're supposed to represent hope, opportunity, and strength for everybody.
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One thing I have been banging on about, we have a dessert deficit in the U.K. We still import a very large proportion of our desserts. I would ask everyone to go out and buy a British dessert.
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To be honest, bread constipates me, and I like to have my daily bowel movement.
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All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for people who are creative to do what they need to do without having institutions block their art.
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From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.
