Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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I'm not the girl for super high fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.
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I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
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In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
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I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.
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I think it all comes back to the individual. My instrument's just a pile of metal and wood! If you listen to the way I speak I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument that concept comes through very clearly. In fact some people who've seen me play have noticed that I'm singing - but it's more that I'm actually speaking. So it's not really about the instrument. But for me, in my thinking, the music is all about the melody. When I compose, 99 percent of the time I start with the melody.
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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
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As a child, I grew up the son of German immigrant parents, so I grew up being teased and called 'Fritz' at school. When I married my wife and went to live in Vienna, I was teased for being a Brit.
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Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.
