Frank Gorshin Quotes
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If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.
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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
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I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.
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The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast. And as performers, we know that because that's why we choose the words we use - that's the whole point of comedy.
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The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate.
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Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
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Socrates gave a lifetime to the outpouring of his substance in the shape of the greatest benefits bestowed on all who cared to receive them. In other words, he made those who lived in his society better men and sent them on their way rejoicing.
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The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.
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My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.
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I write exactly what I think. If it's a raw subject, I write lots of things and then pull out all the fluff words.
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Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping.
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
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The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.
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These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.
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I like to write books that I would have liked as a child, that would have got me thinking and imagining beyond the words on the page. In a way, my audience is always how I remember myself as a child.
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Airy elaboration just loses everyone in a fog of words.
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I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.
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My whole career - I have been really lucky.
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We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
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I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.
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I am a man of few words, but many riddles.
