John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner freedom.
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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I studied Morse code.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.
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I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.
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Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
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Remarkably, [Sen. Dianne] Feinstein was reading her statement. So her mare's-nest of inapposite words and unclear thoughts cannot be excused as symptoms of Biden's Disease, that form of logorrhea that causes victims, such as Sen. Joe Biden, to become lost on the syntactical back roads of their extemporaneous rhetoric.
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The three biggest fashion mistakes are cheap suits, shoes, and shirts. Spend your money on something good.
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One of the strongest signs of being in the zone is a sense of freedom and of authenticity. When we are doing something that we love and are naturally good at, we are much more likely to feel centered in our true sense of self - to be who we feel we truly are. When we are in our Element, we feel we are doing what we are meant to be doing and being who we're meant to be.
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Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner freedom.
