John Betjeman Quotes
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
John Betjeman
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
Tahar Rahim
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
Yayoi Kusama
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I like going to Japan where they treat it like a real sport. I like doing the entertainment stuff with the WWE. I really like doing the small venue stuff, like Ring of Honor, because everything is so intimate. There's different feelings and different experiences, and you have to be good at different things to do all of that.
Daniel Bryan
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I really sort of kept to myself. I kind of just watched the world. And I think to keep people from messing with me, yeah, you know, I went out to run track. I went out for the football team. Not because I love track or love football.
Barry Jenkins
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
Gay Talese
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I just never, in my career, got into doing a lot of press.
R. Kelly
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If a man is in need of rescue, an airplane can come in and throw flowers on him, and that's just about all. But a direct lift aircraft could come in and save his life.
Igor Sikorsky
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Every athlete, I think, would like to play forever. They never want to acknowledge that they've lost a step or they can't quite do what they did before.
Bob McNair
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Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared. The light spread until the patch of Dark Thing had vanished, and there was only a gentle shining, and through the shining came the stars, clear and pure.
Madeleine L'Engle
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She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood: that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.
Alice Munro
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I still have deep respect for the evangelical tradition and feel, in many ways, close to the Baptist roots of my childhood, although I've been an Episcopalian throughout my adult life and a regular churchgoer.
Jay Parini
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Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
John Betjeman
