John Masefield Quotes
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
A. N. Wilson -
We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
Tara Strong -
The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
Camryn Manheim -
A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
Rachel Cusk -
A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
Jack Falahee -
I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
Taylor Schilling
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I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
Patrick Macnee -
To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
Venus Williams -
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
Beatrice Wood -
We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
Naomi Klein -
I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
Randy Quaid
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When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.
Sam Worthington -
You get steely nerves playing poker.
Nate Silver -
With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.
Vince Gill -
Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
Ford Frick -
Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
Wendy Kopp -
I'm actually not on Twitter.
Rachel Bilson
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know what's going right in the school, and what needs improvement, and that's what this law does.
Margaret Spellings -
There is no more critical indicator of the future of a society than the character, competence, and integrity of its youth.
Urie Bronfenbrenner -
Where there's a will, there's a law suit.
Addison Mizner -
I'm accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults.
Bryan Burrough -
Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
John Masefield