Peter Marshall Quotes
Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.
Quotes to Explore
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I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.
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My goal in life was to pursue the good life.
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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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I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.
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Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects - furniture, clothes, jewellery - that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season.
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Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.
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You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
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I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.
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I went to University of Illinois team camp. And that was a big deal for me. I got MVP of the camp, but they offered another kid from the camp, which was fine. I laughed with the couple coaches I know who were there at the time, who were part of recruiting the other guy.
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What I am afraid of is the first thing I was ever aware of being afraid of and what I have told my daughter countless times she need not fear: being alone in the dark. It is a small prison of emotion from which there is no escape. It is also, in its own way, a shattering revelation.
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It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.
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There are fewer and fewer roles that I haven't done already, or archetypes that I haven't played, and to break out of that box, the most interesting stuff is television.
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The prestige of the international financial institutions rates less than zero.
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The government plans to bring in a new science, technology and innovation policy in 2013.
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In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend of the condition of the body.
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You have accounted yourselves happy on being environed with a great ditch from all the world beside.
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Such were the notes thy once lov'd poet sung, Till death untimely stopp'd his tuneful tongue.
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I think writing is a part-time career, because otherwise you get a little stale, maybe even self-indulgent, when you have to fill the hours with sentences. I don't think, if I wrote 12 hours a day, my work would be much better.
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I'm not a big practice guy at all.
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But I like to go to movies with my son because it's still fun; it reminds me of why I make movies.
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Quite frankly, black folks have always been at the core of what it's meant to make this nation human.
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Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.
