John Dryden Quotes
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
John Dryden
Quotes to Explore
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
Yolandi Visser
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Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.
Sam Smith
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
E. M. Forster
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
Vicki Lawrence
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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
Ira Glass
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Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing. So, reading Tolstoy several times - 'War and Peace,' 'The Kreutzer Sonata' - all those were really important to me.
Karl Marlantes
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I can enjoy her while she's kind;But when she dances in the wind,And shakes the wings and will not stay,I puff the prostitute away: The little or the much she gave is quietly resign'd: Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
John Dryden
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Pliny the Elder
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Besides what I do, I love fishing; I love bringing my children to the forest, getting outdoors in nature. Get outside, people! Stop looking at screens.
Keith Barry
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I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I think that's why people are doing too many revivals, that's why there's a plethora of rock musicals. There's room for everything, but not room for too much of anything.
Harold Prince
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I always tell people, 'The music's free. I get paid to travel.'
Chris Stapleton
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
John Dryden