John R. Allen Quotes
You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.
John R. Allen
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I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map.
Mamie Gummer
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I think that what's been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a new style every year. This, in my case, would be hopeless. In fact, it is said that I have no style at all, but that doesn't matter. I just go on doing, as they say, my thing. I believe this takes a certain courage.
Samuel Barber
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If you sing beautifully about nothing, no one will listen. If you sing badly about great stuff, no one will listen. Ideas are everywhere, but my theory is that a writer doesn't just think of an idea: they perform them.
Patrick Ness
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
D. H. Lawrence
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Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.
Edmund Hillary
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
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I'm not like my siblings, who are musical but can turn their hands to other professions! I'd always wanted to be involved in music - I'm a great believer in doing things that fulfil you.
Laura Mvula
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We are just fanatics about using the technology to make it all wonderful. We laughed at the fact that we were having such a great time working this way.
Al Jarreau
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Our attention spans have been reduced by the immediate gratification provided by smartphones and social media.
Katherine Ryan
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This is my year of the remake. Go for it, see what you can do, guys, why not?
Margot Kidder
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Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years.
Lady Gregory
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You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.
John R. Allen
