John Ruskin Quotes
Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.
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My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.
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When you have your best stuff, it's a lot easier to pitch.
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I had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out.
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I remember, when I was doing 'Nicholas Nickleby', James Archer came to see me at the interval and said, 'My father would like to see you after the show.' It felt rather as if I had been summoned by the Queen, and I was cocky enough to think, 'Who the hell is he to summon me?'
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I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.
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When you're young, it's all about the society of school and being cool, but they don't understand that somebody can be different and live a different lifestyle and still be a regular person. I was the same way when I was a kid.
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It is possible to change, it is possible to leave weakness behind.
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Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.
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A wise man once said, 'The skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave.'
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Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
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Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.
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Individualism denotes the relationship between the individual and the collectivity which prevails in a given society.
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I need wrong to get laughs. I need a normal world so that I can be abnormal, and that's my problem. Comedians need prejudice.
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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
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I haven't heard anything so great for a long time; Beethoven snaps his fingers at the whole world.
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I would rather be the hammer than the anvil.
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Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.
