John Dryden Quotes
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
Quotes to Explore
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
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I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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We can't continue to take from our planet the way we do and not give anything back, and the idea of, 'Oh, but it's fine, I won't have to deal with it in my lifetime,' well, you need to think about the future generations who will have to deal with it.
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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.
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For your first musical in New York, to go to Broadway and be nominated for a Tony is a dream come true.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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I so want to be able to speak another language. I love the way my friends who are half Italian and half English break from one language into another without even pausing.
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Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
