John Galsworthy Quotes
Life was to be lived - not torpidly dozed through in this queer cultured place, where age was in the blood! Life was for love - to be enjoyed!

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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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I don't move away from grief, rather through it.
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Our plan is what the Scottish government had with the U.K. It's an agreement to consult over the independence of Catalonia. And we will not abandon this plan until the end.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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Guys need attention. They need that nourishment, that little stroke of the ego that gets them by every now and then. I’ll give it to my family, I’ll give it to my work - but I will not give it to a man right now.
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I grew up in Northern California, and theater is all there was. I didn't know how to go about starting a career when I was 10.
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The life of a film is very strange. Once the film is done, you wish you could forget about it and move on.
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There's a lot of technology out there to help people have children in different ways, and later in life, for better or worse.
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I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
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Life was to be lived - not torpidly dozed through in this queer cultured place, where age was in the blood! Life was for love - to be enjoyed!