George Chapman Quotes
Fortune, the great commandress of the world,Hath divers ways to advance her followers:To some she gives honour without deserving,To other some, deserving without honour.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.
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I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
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Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.
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It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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I'm saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then?
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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If there is one thing BP's 'watery improv act' made clear, it is that, as a culture, we have become far too willing to gamble with things that are precious and irreplaceable, and to do so without a back-up plan, without an exit strategy.
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I buy when other people are selling.
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It is users that are driving the networks with innovations on top of the networks and with innovations in the devices space. This is very healthy.
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I would not invest in any shoe that is too trendy.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.
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A comic book is the opposite of a cartoon. In a cartoon, you want to simplify the idea, so when they look at it at a glance, they get it. Boom. Simple. Direct to the point. But when you're drawing Groo, now it's a narrative, a story. You want the viewer to get involved in the story. You want him to feel like he's in the town to follow your main character. So I love to add lots and lots of things in it. Things that people will enjoy going back to and say, "Oh yeah, that's how a market must have looked in this fantasy world, with people selling meat here and dishes here."
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I don’t need a better thing. I’d settle for less. It’s another thing for me. I just have to wander through this world. Alone.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.
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I just don't believe the hype. I just don't take myself too seriously. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
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The biggest beauty myth is that everyone looks better without makeup. That's not true. Makeup is important.
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Fortune, the great commandress of the world,Hath divers ways to advance her followers:To some she gives honour without deserving,To other some, deserving without honour.
