Flora Lewis Quotes
Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.
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I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.
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It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real.
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We are proud to be the No. 1 most funded film on Indiegogo... and with a totally new property. In a world filled with sequels and reboots, Lazer Team is a brand-new IP being made possible by the people who want to see it.
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To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job.
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Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.
