James Russell Lowell Quotes
She thought no v'ice hed sech a swingEz hisn in the choir;My! when he made Ole Hunderd ringShe knowed the Lord was nigher.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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I love to get home and hang out with my family. My brothers and I love spending time at the beach. I enjoy doing all kinds of surf sports and keeping healthy.
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If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.
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I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.
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I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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We seem, particularly over here in the West and in America in particular, to have forgotten that we are, in large measures, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves.
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I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.
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Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
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I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
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Perl itself is usually pretty good about telling you what you shouldn't do.
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My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.
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Cancer is a disease where the patient can contribute a great deal of help himself if he or she can retain their morale and their hopes.
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My most memorable job was on a lobster boat. I was a pretty strong kid, and they just needed someone who could haul pots on 200 ft. of line.
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She thought no v'ice hed sech a swingEz hisn in the choir;My! when he made Ole Hunderd ringShe knowed the Lord was nigher.
