Hartley William Shawcross Quotes
Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time.
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I'm totally comfortable with myself.
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There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death. Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.
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I don't really listen to rap; I just like to rap.
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They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel.
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I think it's really important to not stress out about anything.
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Television? It's a gateway to writer's block, isn't it?
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Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.
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For some odd reason, I like a man in sweatsuits. Obviously, you want your man to look good in a suit, but I like when men look comfortable, and the swagger just stands out of that.
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I felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That's just me.
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It is a little bit demoralizing to work a show, and you just try so many times to get something, and the creator just keeps saying, 'No, not that.' Then they just instantly come up with something.
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Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it.
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I can let the team do the talking for me.
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I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
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Beauty is all about us, but how many are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going. They seek excitement ... as if they were lost and desperate.
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You can physically move yourself around but there's that great line that Adam wrote: "Does it define for life, like print of thumb?" I think it does.
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I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication.
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We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.
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Every day someone notices me and waves to me, or stops and speaks to me, or asks me for an autograph, or photographs me.
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A lot of the other things in my life like making music, you know that's a very collaborative thing so I work on comics because it's not something that's a solo activity.
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In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.
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I'm the kind of person who is entertained watching someone simply be themselves, whether they're putting their children to bed or making dinner or sitting at the table reading the morning newspaper.
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He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself. But the street ran on: catlike, one place was the same as another to him. But in none of them could he be quiet. But the street ran on in its moods and phases, always empty: he might have seen himself as in numberless avatars, in silence, doomed with motion, driven by the courage of flagged and spurred despair; by the despair of courage whose opportunities had to be flagged and spurred.
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hen I was starting my journey as a young guitar player, I was listening to The Beatles, the Stones, and all the British invasion bands, Top 40, Motown, and all the great music of the '60s. Then the alien ship landed, and life changed again forever... Jimi Hendrix.
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Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time.
