Ernest Dimnet Quotes
Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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Unfortunately, I'm very accident-prone.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.
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Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.
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Yum-O! I say this if something is so good that 'yum' just isn't enough of an exclamation. The accent is on the 'O' as in, 'Oh! That is so good!'
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How we live our lives in the Western world has impacts on the rest of the world.
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Life is full of challenges and surprises.
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Adopting this lifestyle and opting to exercise has helped me a lot in life.
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I am excited about focusing full-time on talking about my job-creation agenda and building a new economy for Washington state. We have a great chance to seize our own destiny, build our own industries, and create our own technological revolutions right here at home.
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If someone were to come from another planet and see the world through movies, they'd think that the world was populated by white men in their 30s who shoot a lot.
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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
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When people say 'stadium songs,' it's really negative. All the festival headliners, I've realised, are usually the worst bands.
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I only went along to youth theatre with a friend when I was young to try to make myself a bit more sociable. But the whole thing was quite sore; it really hurt me trying to get into drama school. It was a world I knew nothing about - it was very middle class; all that usual stuff. But I was young, determined, and I just went for it.
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I write a lot of my music, but not all of it. I have always subscribed to the 'best song wins' theory when making an album.
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The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love.
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I love to sing, and I warm up to Maria Callas.
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I really love New York, but I have to say, the humidity during the summer is a nightmare for a cartoonist. Not only am I sweating in my studio, my bristol board is curling up, the drafting tape is peeling off the board, my Rapidograph pens bleed the minute I put them to paper... it's a disaster.
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America is huge.
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Many in the creative professions were nerds in their pasts because they spent so long reading comics and using their imaginations when they were growing up.
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Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name.
