Joel Chandler Harris Quotes
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.
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As miserable as I was, once I started singing, I felt better.
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When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
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I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
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Many are called but few get up.
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The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.
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America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.
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Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
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Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.
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We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience.
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I'm not an actor because I want my picture taken. I'm an actor because I want to be part of the human exchange.
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I hate it when theater people go on about professionalism - aren't they boring? I try to be as unprofessional as possible. And I'm a little bit politically incorrect.
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In 10 months, I was replaced from three films. That's when I realised I need to take my work seriously. It's a blessing I didn't get things easy. If I had, I wouldn't realise the value of success.
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I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.
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But search the land of living men,Where wilt thou find their like again?
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Remember your six P's - Perfect Practice Prevents Piss Poor Performance.
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As soon as you do it, actors realize there is no difference playing a performance-captured role or a live-action role.
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Brer Fox, he lay low.
