John F. Kennedy Quotes
The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is very close to the center of a nation's purpose...and is a test of the quality of a nation's civilization.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
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I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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It's very difficult switching over from one character to another.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
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Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.
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I do hope the success of 'Ms. Marvel' will open doors for other characters and other creators.
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Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.
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I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.
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I have lost and put on big batches of weight in my life many, many times. But what concerns me is the idea of being an obese old woman, because I don't like the idea of being physically incapable in someone else's hands.
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The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
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The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is very close to the center of a nation's purpose...and is a test of the quality of a nation's civilization.
