Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
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Too often, when Europeans talked of trans-Atlantic ties, we focused on the North Atlantic only.
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When creating an album, one of the first things you have to think about is what you want your production style to be.
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My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.
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I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a child to understand. Otherwise it'd be too late. By the time you figured it out it would be too late.
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In almost every case, cutting things back is a way of favoring what is left.
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People ordinarily don't think of their orchestras as important as we'd like them to be. People don't care about their friends and neighbors who sit down to commit excellence three or four times a year, but they will go see the tall bald guy with three names from television.
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I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them.
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That was a surprise. I just had wished that Wil Wheaton was there. He was missing from the last show and it would have been nice if everyone could have been there.
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I was never any good at keeping secrets.
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Liverpool will always be special for me: my daughter was born here.
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If you put out 20 films, you hope that a number are successful. It's like human reproduction versus frog reproduction. Frogs produce thousands and hope a few succeed. Humans don't produce many babies but put a lot of energy into them, which is kind of where we are. They still don't always succeed, but you try a lot harder.
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Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.
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Being that I went to jail and came back, I went through a whole new experience in life. I went from being at the top to back down at the bottom again. In jail, you get stripped of your freedom and everything, so I experienced different things, learned more.
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I have a special place in my heart for Nashville because it saved my life back in the day.
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I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.
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The role of TV at the core of the family is that of an electric nanny.
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There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.
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How much can you give to him when you get so little in return? Eventually I fear you’ll go dry and end up hating him.
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Being home schooled is awesome because you can make your own schedule, so as far as time management, it's up to you how much you get done and when you get it done. It's all got to get done; how you do it is up to you. You need a lot of self-discipline, but luckily, I have it.
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In my regular life, I am very involved in commissions for cities and sometimes countries. And I think of public art as a team sport. The outcome is only possible with the interaction of all the players.
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Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.
