Eric Gill Quotes
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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There's competition at every phase of your life. The day we start thinking about it, you lose your peace of mind. I don't compete with anyone.
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When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.
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The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
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Writers are so important.
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Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
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I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.
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Meanwhile, to consolidate a climate of benevolence, I tried to return to normal activities, like a sick person who has been in the hospital for a long time and, partly to overcome the fear of falling ill again, wants to reanchor himself to the life of the healthy.
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I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.
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It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.
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That’s the secret to performance: conviction. The right note played tentatively still misses its mark, but play boldly and no one will question you. If one believes there is truth in art – and I do – then it’s troubling how similar the skill of performing is to lying. Maybe lying is itself a kind of art. I think about that more than I should.
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If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.
