John Ruskin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.
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One of my strengths is connecting with the players.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.
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I've been on a state of high alert since high school. I didn't need 9/11 to remind me that we live on a ball of flame.
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I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.
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When I was suffering with depression, people weren't talking about depression. It had a stigma.
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When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
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During the off-season, I try to increase my practice sessions, and I am also training with my coaches.
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Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.
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Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
