George MacDonald Quotes
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.
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I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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The cat would eate fish, and would not wet her feete.
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In Spain, we mainly use red plum tomatoes, but it is always fun to experiment. Try using a mix of colors or substitute green tomatoes for plum next time you make a tomato dish.
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How do men feel whose whole lives (and many men's lives are) are lies, schemes, and subterfuges? What sort of company do they keep when they are alone? Daily in life I watch men whose every smile is an artifice, and every wink is an hypocrisy. Doth such a fellow where a mask in his own privacy, and to his own conscience?
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You can't defend. You can't prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond.
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No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day.
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Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
