James Schuyler Quotes
It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
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Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
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There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in the same way as men.
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I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists.
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It's remarkable that the failures of the Obama, Clinton, Kerry foreign policy are not only uniting the Left and Right in Israel but might even be creating some common ground between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
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Without the library, I would have been lost.
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Women often have a fraught relationship with their mothers, even though that's the most important relationship in their lives.
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It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing.
