Joshua Slocum Quotes
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Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).
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I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.
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What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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They can say I have an opinion about something.
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I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.
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Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
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I blog because I have something to say.
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If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a prince, and he says, 'To be or not to be.'"
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I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.
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Just say no to drugs!
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So I would say Reagan was the best, and certainly Clinton the worst.
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It's fair to say that I have a side that is prudent and a side that is not.
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When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.
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The hardest portion of English, I must say it: Idioms.
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With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.
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I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood.
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Basically, Urban Fantasy means D&D in New York. Ordinary people have no idea that they share the world with fantastic, supernatural creatures. It can't just be vampires or werewolves; it has to be a whole continuum of fantastic beings, with their own society within society.
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At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.
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No, I am a crier and if people ever saw me privately they would be shocked at what a bowl of mush I am underneath it all.
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I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.
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Work on it every day! Even when you down and out! Even when you not feeling it, still do it!
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To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.
