Joshua Bell Quotes
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I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring.
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I tell inmates all the time, 'Don't complain about your grind. Do your time.'
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The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.
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The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.
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I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.
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I would say that, of course, it is wrong to objectify women. But at the same time, entertainment should not be inter-mingled with commodification.
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And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.
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I always think that I have plenty of time for everything, and then the reality of it doesn't quite match up.
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Chashkin Sar was virgin, and we climbed it for the first time, and afterwards, the people renamed it as Samina Baig.
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
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It is time to put policy ahead of politics and success ahead of the status quo. It is time for a new strategy to produce what we need: a stable Iraq government that takes over for its own people so our troops can finish their job.
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Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.
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I have begun to see that even my father's harshness was a kind of love. An imperfect love, to be sure, but love nonetheless. He pushed me because he loved me, because he wanted no man to ever look down at his offspring. Now with time, rather than bitterness I feel blessing.… My initial fury has slowly given way to forgiveness.
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Well, we all age, but I'd been taking herbal supplements for a long time.
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I was totally ignored for a while... that's a hazard of signing with a small company who say how small they are and how close to the artists they are. Suddenly they don't have any time for you.
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Nobody wants the United States to default on its debt. Nobody. But, at some point in time, we've got to address the fiscal woes of this nation.
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We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.
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I've always loved to paint - I was studying to do an art degree when I was approached to become a model - and I've being doing some design work as well. I also love just having a quiet time, sitting in my little library at home in Brooklyn and reading or watching documentaries or listening to music.
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I don't like my birthday. I don't like things that are directed towards me. It took me a long time to get over people asking me to write my name in the book.
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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
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I don't come from a family of readers - in fact, my parents are unable to read the books in English.
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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt.
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We live in the least ugly time in history.
