Eugene Delacroix Quotes
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My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.
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Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
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A nonfiction author has to bring a platform with him - radio, a TV show or some kind of recognizable vehicle to help launch them. And the agent is really necessary to represent all of the business interests of the author.
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I always thought I was going to be a great poet, and go and live in New York, where the great poets lived - you know, where Whitman had walked the streets.
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
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For a while, I thought that I was only going to be cast in Second World War films.
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Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
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Wild flowers grow where they will.
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So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.
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It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing. Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.
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The only thing that makes change possible is the idea of developing some kind of institution, because the institutions will survive individuals.
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I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
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He said that humanity in the main was crass, stupid, boorish and vulgar, and that I could learn at least this much from you.
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We have been helping, trying to help Afghanistan in many ways, even from the beginning of... the beginnings of the '20s, 1920s, when he we were fighting our own national struggle.
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I longed from a tiny child to get away on my own. When I was five, I walked out along the sands from Redcar, nearly all the way to Hartlepool.
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Every act of self-discipline increases your confidence, trust, and belief in yourself and your abilities.
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My father sang well, and he was a handsome man. When he walked down the street, people sometimes mistook him for Cary Grant and asked for his autograph.
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In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.
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You have to be born to this job. There’s no scientific learning method.
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It’s true that the mind is where all ideas are born, but the body is the tool that translates and expresses those ideas to the wider world. It is nothing but a vehicle for our greater creative purpose but if we don’t give it fuel and keep it in good working order it instead becomes another obstacle to transcend, a physical one, as well as the many million fictitious mental ones that society presents.
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Draughtsmen may be made, but colourists are born.
