James Payn Quotes
In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.
Quotes to Explore
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.
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I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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It's really important, especially for young girls, to see that if you fall down, you get back up. If you get sick, you get back up. People are going to say what they want.
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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I know what poverty is.
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People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
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I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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We can make this country the garden of Eden.
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I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down after 20 years. I didn't want to be a 60-year-old woman holding on to something I created when I was 23.
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There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea.
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Quien ha visto con los ojos abiertos, puede volver a ver, pero con los ojos cerrados.
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The father threw up on the ground. In the vomit, there were errors--strings not vomit, but language, light. The bunched up bits were writing something, words at once sunk into the ground.
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In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.
