Bret Harte Quotes
And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.
Bret Harte
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I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a shallow and dangerous attitude to have.
Patricia Richardson
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
Ornette Coleman
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I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'
Damian Lewis
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Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.
Ferran Adria
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I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'
Orhan Pamuk
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No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can't let people's nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?
Elizabeth Berkley
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Since cowardice must occur at a time and place where an enemy either has already appeared or may yet turn up, servicemen in peacetime - and ordinary civilians - can breathe a sigh of relief. If you are yellow-bellied back home, you're not technically a coward.
Charles Duhigg
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Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.
Joel Osteen
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Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to be a thing that has not gotten through to them. It’s my impression that you could get rid of half of most of these books. These people are not good enough to be this long, but they’re apparently also not good enough to be shorter.
Fran Lebowitz
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There's a certain groove you pick that makes the music flow, and when you have it it's in your pocket. It's the feeling behind the rhythm... to me, the hardest thing to strive for is that feeling, behind the groove.
Max Weinberg
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And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.
Bret Harte