John Osborne Quotes
It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.
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I make sure I sing a cappella to let people know I can sing.
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
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Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'
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Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?
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Smoke machines are the best!
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There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
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If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
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Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
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The delights of self-discovery are always available.
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Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
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There's nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better.
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Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I know how things are going to end, and I know some important incidents along the way.
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The truth is I don't feel too bad for my age. I actually have a better shape now than I used to.
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Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.
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Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.
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I'm from a salt-of-the-earth, working-class, northern background. My dad's a steelworker and a firefighter, and my mum is a secretary for the NHS.
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And let us remember that in a global economy, a country’s greatest resource is its people. So by investing in you, this nation can open the door for far more prosperity - because unlocking a nation’s potential depends on empowering all its people, especially its young people.
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The only ones I trust really are my Mum and Dad and those who are closest to me.
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I don't really have anything to say. Basketball is not a game that you can play with your mouth. It needs action to prove yourself.
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It just seemed like all the records I have made since Creedence Clearwater Revival have all been sort of pushed off center. I felt like I was dancing around the outskirts of what is my true center. With this album, I really wanted to stay on the mark, right in the middle, right where rock 'n' roll is. I wanted this one to be easier, a lot more fun than some of the past records have been.
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Back when people couldn't read, other people would take newspapers and turn them into theater so that people would know what was going on in the world. That is a powerful thing.
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It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.
