Paul Johnson (Paul Bede Johnson) Quotes
The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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Now that I've achieved my goal to win the belt, I want to be the best of all times. I want to be remembered as the lightweight with most title defenses.
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My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.
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We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.
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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
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Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
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When I decided to work with Krishna Vamsi, people around me were apprehensive about my decision. They warned me that I shouldn't work with an unsuccessful director.
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Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.
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For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.
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At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit.
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If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.
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These palms are driving me crazy; the motifs are extremely difficult to seize, to put on canvas; it's so bushy everywhere, although delightful to the eye.. .I would like to do orange and lemon trees silhouetted against the blue sea, but cannot find them as I would like.
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The master made it his task to systematically destroy every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended as pointers, were now taken as descriptions. He loved to quote the Eastern saying: 'When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.'
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I think often, and never without a certain fear of Nessim's love for Justine. - It coloured his unhappiness with a kind of ecstasy - Yet one touch of humour would have saved him from such dreadful comprehensive suffering.
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Q: What language is not written in French? A: Sanskrit. In French, it's known as sanskrit or sanscrit, which you can interpret as sans (without) + écrit (written) https://www.facebook.com/wordsmithorg/posts/10157813707206840
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From a distance he had the bland aspect of a philanthropist.
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Then I got a gig with an older friend who had the equipment and he played in this bar. They would bring me in the bar through the backdoor and I would DJ in the back room most of the night. Then they'd take me out the backdoor, so I was never really in the bar.
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Yesterday, here in Philadelphia, at the Liberty Bell, I met a lot of Americans who do have the will. From arch-religious conservatives to young secular radicals, I just felt an incredible overpowering sense that this was possible. We're calling it the ONE campaign, to put an end to AIDS and extreme poverty in Africa. They believe we can do it, so do I.
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Nature formed me fierce.
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Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
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Homicide at its best stinks to high heaven because everyone walking this earth has a closet he’d prefer leaving closed and homicide rarely knocks before entering.
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The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them.
