John Charles Polanyi Quotes
The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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With comedy, it's really hard to tell if something's working on the page - you really need the actors to bring it alive. The scariest part is if people will laugh or not.
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I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.
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I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.
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One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.
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If you're not a confident person, pretend to be one.
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I don't know if I have any feelings about psychics. I never really met any.
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I just think it's quite remarkable that everyone says they want to add more commentary to their news pages. In some ways, I think, 'Well, how is that even possible?' It seems sometimes that that's all that there is.
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Lyrically I'm untouchable, uncrushable. Getting mad blunted in the S-500.
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In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized
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there is time to play...and then there are times to work hard and get my fans an album.
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Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.
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I don't sing now, because I had polio when I was 15, bulbar polio. This was when the epidemic was happening. And I was lucky that it didn't affect my lungs or my legs. It went to my face and kind of paralyzed my vocal chords, and I wasn't able to sing. And they said I was very lucky that I would get over it, which I did.
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It's weird: you do a TED talk on something, and people think that you suddenly have a lot of answers around the topic.
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One of the things I like to do during an 'overhaul' revision is bust out my highlighters and colored pens. Tools like these make me feel like a real writer.
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Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.
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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
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Magoo's appeal lies in our hostility toward an older generation. But he's not only nearsighted physically. His mind is selective of what it sees, too. That is where the humor, the satire lies, in the difference between what he thinks he sees and reality as we see it.
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I remember, as a child, wanting all the time to buy my parents presents. I stood around forlornly in fancy shops, unable to afford a single thing.
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The new school in the Swiss village Frauenkirch where Kirchner lived since c. 1919 was inaugurated yesterday. It was a celebration with songs, dancing and speeches, followed by drinking such as I have not seen or experienced in decades. Everyone sat in the 'Post', the village council, the president of the council, the farmers, every one of one accord and friendly. They made a point of including me and so there I was, sitting once again amongst these people who had received me with such kindness and friendliness on the Alp twenty years ago. The relief in the school, made by Kirchner has found favour and was mentioned often in the speeches.
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Sentimus experimurque, nos aeternos esse.
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Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.
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The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.
