Robert W. Service Quotes
And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. And each forgets that his youth has fled, Forgets that his prime is past, Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead, In the glare of the truth at last.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
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While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's features.
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I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.
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I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
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Don't worry about Yemen. Yemen started in peace, and it will end its revolution in peace, and it will start its new civil state with peace.
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'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
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I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
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An improv team would have eight guys and one woman; that was still pretty standard. If you were a woman improviser, it was actually kind of an advantage because, if you were halfway decent, you'd get a lot more stage time.
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Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.
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I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
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Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.
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People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.
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My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
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You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can't compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and say, 'They are taking the country down the road to purgatory.' It's complete intolerance.
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It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.
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Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?
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What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they..
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The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running.
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And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. And each forgets that his youth has fled, Forgets that his prime is past, Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead, In the glare of the truth at last.
