Ivor Novello Quotes
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.
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California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.
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In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.
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No agency is better than its account executives.
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It's a contract of connection to be in the same space and watch and listen to stories and be caught in them. When you're in a theater, your brain expands because somebody in the theater may do something or respond to something that you wouldn't have.
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People have also said that I can't be used as a fair example of Hollywood living since I keep my private life so completely separate from my career.
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In a way, no one's harder on the poor than the poor themselves.
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Rice at present prices provides more food for the money than most of the other cereals.
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I feel like I'm a good motivator; I'm very determined.
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Pole vaulting is an event of high and lows.
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I make a fabulous tofurkey for Thanksgiving. My Mexican-Italian family can't tell the difference.
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I never had a desire to hurt anybody. I have at certain times had violent urges, but I don't think I ever have hurt anybody. Tried to a couple times, but I don't think I have. Yeah, guess I have. In high school. I was dirty then. Kick 'em. I might not've hurt 'em, though, they might've just been afraid of me.
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Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
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Our differences are what make us great. Let us think about how we can extend this appreciation to people of color, undocumented immigrants, and other members of the community.
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There are many forms of writing that are common, but also very formulaic, such as annual reports or economic studies. In those areas, people would probably be relieved not to have to write those kinds of things because they are mundane and drudgery.
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If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
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When someone asks me to do something, something new, something I don't know about, and if I haven't done it, I'll say yes. Just so I can try something new. You never know what you might like.
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I have a fierce temper. I've mastered it over the years, but when I'm angry, no one can force me to do anything I don't want to.
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The War will leave none of us as it found us.
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After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films.
