John James Audubon Quotes
Reader, persons who have never witnessed a hurricane, such as not unfrequently desolates the sultry climates of the south, can scarcely form an idea of their terrific grandeur. One would think that, not content with laying waste all on land, it must needs sweep the waters of the shallows quite dry to quench its thirst.
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It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood. I can always go to my family with any doubts or questions I may have.
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
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I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.
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Even though I have lived in the States since I was 18, in my head I am still very British, and I do have this romance for towns in Middle America that nobody gets to see.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
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If you're thinking like that - 'Does this person want me for me?' - then you're gonna have a hell of a hard time falling in love, 'cause you're constantly thinking about what they look like on paper.
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My vision and my creative ability is just so broad.
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I love to conduct opera.
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So often, we're expected to maintain some sort of standard - that won't get you where you need to go. One of the most daring things I've done is drop out of graduate school. I had no job, but something inside me was saying, 'Go! Be in the world!' I had to listen to myself, and it worked out. I still think, 'Who was that girl?'
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In Japan, a company worker's position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.
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Any time you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't.
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The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life.
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I know what I like and what I want, and I can sit and enjoy every 10 minutes that go by. And truly enjoy it.
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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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When you play good, everything is good, but when you don't play so good, everything is bad. Even when you think there are good things, they still say bad things.
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Big business is basic to the very life of this country; and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is monumental contradiction.
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Reader, persons who have never witnessed a hurricane, such as not unfrequently desolates the sultry climates of the south, can scarcely form an idea of their terrific grandeur. One would think that, not content with laying waste all on land, it must needs sweep the waters of the shallows quite dry to quench its thirst.
