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 focused primarily on being an instrumentalist and studying music and on my primary means of expression: composing and playing.
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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I'm not afraid of poking fun at myself.
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It's not easy not getting playing time, but you have to keep showing up and working your tail off to be ready.
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Trouble results when the speed of growth exceeds the speed of nurturing human resources. To use the analogy of growth rings in a tree, when unusually rapid growth caused the rings to grow abnormally thick, the tree trunk weakens and is easily broken.
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Brer Fox, he lay low.
