George Crabbe Quotes
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.
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It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
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Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.
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It's good to laugh at times that feel inappropriate.
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It's important to have good tunes, but words are the thing for me.
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We want laws to be applied predictably.
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When I do a 30-minute meal, for instance, on Food Network, that's my food you see at the end of the show and it's not perfect. And if sometimes things break or drop or the pasta hits the wall when I'm draining it, they never stop tape. They just kind of let me go with it.
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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I'm a big fan of Mashable and TechCrunch and other outlets like that, but TechMeme obviously does an amazing job of aggregating.
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If you love food and you love red wine and they put you in France, you're in a good place and you're in a bad place at the same time. You have to weigh yourself every day, and you have to have an alarm number. When you get to that number, you have to start putting it in reverse.
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It's good to fight with your brothers, and it's good to tease them to give them advice.
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Everybody always talks about how they can't wait until they turn 18, so they can go out on their own and get their own apartment, and I'm like, 'I want to be with Mom!' I have it good.
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I think it's good to live an artful life.
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The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high quality, and you also have a choice of eating in the more traditional restaurants, the Churchill Room or the Members' Dining Room. I don't often eat in them, though, as I'm usually on the run.
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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
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We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.
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I've been wanting to write a book about what goes into creating a novel, and the story behind 'A Passage to India' is especially interesting.
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I'm a 'frotteur,' someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible. Does that word in this sentence have any electric potential? Does it do anything? Too much electricity will make your reader's hair frizzy. There's a question of pacing.
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I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.
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The American dream is you come here, you believe in democracy, you believe in the Constitution, you work hard, you can make it.
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He tried the luxury of doing good.
