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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If pity was always equally alive and acting in all individuals and in all circumstances, we could do away with moral. Unfortunately, it is not compassion, but rather it's contrary, selfishness, that act most strongly in us.
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Between "just desserts" and "tragic irony" we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.
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The whole cap came off.. must've been a recap.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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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.
