Percy Ross Quotes
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I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.
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I think there is something to be said for not feeling like just because you're a model you have to be dressed up, look amazing, go to every party, and be smiling all the time.
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At NSD, I had an amazing experience learning everything from stagecraft to western drama and Shakespeare, Maxim Gorky, Anton Chekov.
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Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time.
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I hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
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It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.
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As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional.
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They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms.
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I started to write The Name of the Rose in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.
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Don't waste your crazy!
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Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.
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I've got miracle lyrical capability all in me / With the agility to escape a killer bee colony.
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Seeking with the soul the land of the Greeks.
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The two divinest things this world has got,A lovely woman in a rural spot!
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Some part of life – perhaps the most important part – must be left to the spontaneous action of individual impulse, for where all is system there will be mental and spiritual death.
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One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity, terrible as an army with banners. That, I confess, is a spectacle which makes our boldest tempters uneasy. But fortunately it is quite invisible to these humans.
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Not only will you be held accountable for the things you do, but you will be held responsible for the very thoughts you think.
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Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever.
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We tend to think of politicians as time-servers and slackers. But on those committees they usually have an interest in the subject. And they're quite clever. I've seen them pick people apart.
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I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.
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A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.
