Robert W. Service Quotes
Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
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I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
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I've been making a diary of the daft things people have said during London Fashion Week, and it does wear a little bit thin, everyone comparing my name to Edie Sedgwick.
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It's true that I'm not ashamed of my body. I'm comfortable, and I think more women should be more confident.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
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The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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I met Donald Barthelme when I was 30, and it's fair to say that before that moment, I was pre-modern, and after I met him, I was nudged rather forcefully towards this other end of the spectrum.
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Business is always a struggle. There are always obstacles and competitors. There is never an open road, except the wide road that leads to failure. Every great success has always been achieved by fight. Every winner has scars.The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will-power to develop themselves. So choose to be among the few today.
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Everybody blames the Jews for killing Christ, and the Jews try to pass it off on the Romans. I'm one of the few people who believes it was the blacks.
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If I have to try and write one more country single, I'll lose my mind.
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I respect Conor McGregor's style.
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If you are supposed to be villainous and have some sort of agenda, I like the idea of delivering that kind of character in a perfectly well-mannered way.
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Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.
