Jim Pattison Quotes
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In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.
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I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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I've covered the White House and been yelled at by presidents.
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If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
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The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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I don't go out of the way to take special care of myself.
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Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.
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The constant attention is what is so difficult.
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I could wake up six in the morning, go downstairs and record. I learned how to use ProTools and everything. Whenever I felt it, I could record.
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We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.
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The stream of civilisation flows on like a river: it is rapid in mid- current, slow at the sides, and has its backwaters. At best, civilisation advances by spirals.
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You tell it that it's indicative by appending $!. That's why we made $! such a short variable name, after all.
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It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
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I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot. As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can.
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Oh, oh, I guess we're capable all right. But somehow or another it just doesn't come as natural to us as it does to you.
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The life that I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment for the balance of my life. The sun will not rise, or set, without my notice, and thanks.
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In the Sixties, conglomerates were all the rage.
