Robert W. Service Quotes
His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.
Robert W. Service
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My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.
Vera Wang
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In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
J. William Fulbright
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Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away everything from it and have it be equally as entertaining and good without the bells and whistles.
Taylor Momsen
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I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.
Candace Bushnell
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When I was a little girl, my dream was just to hear my song on the radio. It was very fascinating to me, and I was like, 'How do I do that?' Now it's like, 'Oh my God, my song is on the radio!'
Bebe Rexha
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When I lived in London, I worked three jobs and had such long work days.
Hannah Simone
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My connections to Broward are long, and they are deep, and I'm proud of them.
Ted Deutch
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That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.
RaeLynn
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I liked the idea of creating a new pop-culture, folkloric hero character that I created with 'Django' that I think's gonna last for a long time. And I think as the generations go on and everything, you know, my hope is it can be a rite of passage for black fathers and their sons. Like, when are they old enough to watch 'Django Unchained'?
Quentin Tarantino
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Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.
Valerie Simpson
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I think sometimes you are born with a song.
Nana Mouskouri
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Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.
Damon Albarn
Gorillaz
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I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress.
Wen Ho Lee
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Say the opposite, say the opposite, say the same thing, say the same thing. (song/refrain on 'The Show').
Ze Frank
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What is beyond the cathedral, outside, Balances with nuptial song. So it is to sit and to balance things To and to and to the point of still, To say of one mask it is like, To say of another it is like, To know that the balance does not quite rest, That the mask is strange, however like.
Wallace Stevens
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If Christianity is wine and Islam coffee, Buddhism is most certainly tea.
Alan Watts
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'Wuthering Heights' was not your normal type song - but that's why it was so brilliant. It was something out the norm. When something like that comes along, they don’t come along that often. When does the next Kate Bush come along, after Kate Bush? There hasn’t been one.
Elton John
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Modern dynamic economies do not stay still long enough to allow for an accurate reading of their underlying structures.
Alan Greenspan
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I was a very good girl for a long time, that's what really drew me to acting. The stage was the perfect place to be outrageous, to be sad, to be angry, to be all these different things.
Joan Allen
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As long as it comes across, the characters are well-served, the stories are good, and people like it, that's it for me. I'm a happy guy.
Jim Cummings
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I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.
Pete Hamill
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I've three children, three grandchildren, I work, I travel, and I'm very happily married. I'm very satisfied and happy with my life and there really isn't anything I want.
Joan Collins
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Amazon deliberately provides cafeteria space for only a third of its employees, which encourages people to venture out of the office.
James B. Stewart
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His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.
Robert W. Service
