Francis Spufford Quotes
I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.
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There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.
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We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.
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Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
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I think people hear the warmth in my voice and the friendliness, and they think: 'Oh, she must be a very nice person'.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
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The song that's affected me the most profoundly is probably Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' or, more specifically, the couple seconds of instrumental break before Vincent Price starts 'rapping.'
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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There's no one who has been living for centuries.
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When a president speaks, it's to multiple audiences.
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Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
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It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing.
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Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.
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Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in Christchurch, a lot of burgeoning goes on.
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There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
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Drive around through the state of Oklahoma, and you find some areas that really need to be improved.
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My first job was for a blue jean company as a sitting model. I posed for 15 minutes and made $50. It was 1976.
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It's nice to get invited to the parties and to be able to hobnob and celebrate a job well done with your colleagues.
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The importance of first-week sales has kind of diminished, in our opinion, in the industry, and we don't really know what it really means anymore. It is what it is in the industry. And for us, it's all about the endgame, not where it begins.
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My mother would take the Band-Aid off, clean the wound, and say, "Things that are covered don't heal well." Mother was right. Things that are covered do not heal well.
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I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.
