Ernest Hemingway Quotes
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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I just want my films to work. The hit or flop verdict really affects me. I seriously analyse what went wrong if a film turns out to be a dud!
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Anything that anybody wants to give me is great! I've had folk songs, heavy metal songs, jewellery... I would never call anything any fan gives me weird, as it's how people express what they like about the books, what it means to them, and that's a wonderful thing.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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I am supposed to set an example to young players.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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I trust no one - that microphone, that book.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me.
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Indians are sometimes accused of being condescending toward Westerners and of being excessively preachy in their attitude toward other nations. That accusation is sometimes correct.
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Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.
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At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I had never written anything longer than a couple of pages till then and was foolishly attempting to write a hundred-thousand words.
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A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!
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There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
