John Millington Synge Quotes
I asked if I got sick and died, would youWith my black funeral go walking too,If you’d stand close to hear them talk or prayWhile I’m let down in that steep bank of clay.
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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My health is fine.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
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There are people that bring artists to me to look at it, and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
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I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.
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Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.
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It would be a great adventure for Leicester to be in the Champions League.
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You don't make a case for reparations thinking, 'Oh yeah, people are gonna love this.' I didn't see that coming.
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The value of small business contracting is indisputable. These firms bring healthy competition to the federal market to drive down prices. They are our nation's innovators and job creators, and securing a federal contract helps them grow and offers more benefit to the economy.
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We are not to tell nature what she’s gotta be... She's always got better imagination than we have.
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I consider myself a pretty good extemporaneous speaker. Even though I don't like speaking in front of people, I don't think I'm bad at it.
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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
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The reader reads aloud, with a sing-song up … then down … then down again cadence. My mood shifts from merely reluctant to derisive. It’s a tired reading style. I’m sick of it. It attaches more importance to the words than the words themselves—as they’ve been arranged—could possibly sustain, and it gives poets and poetry a bad name.
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You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
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I asked if I got sick and died, would youWith my black funeral go walking too,If you’d stand close to hear them talk or prayWhile I’m let down in that steep bank of clay.
