Sean O'Casey Quotes
If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it's not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?
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More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.
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I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.
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A number of organizations are already using Web GIS to create shared information and facilitate collaboration, and it is literally changing the way organizations operate.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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I actually have a degree in music and was aware that music was a tool used in therapy. I didn't realize how far it had come since I was in college in the mid-seventies.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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I always use my 'Holy Trinity' which is salt, olive oil and bacon. My motto is, 'bacon always makes it better.' I try to use bacon and pork products whenever it can.
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Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'
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Some people might be surprised that 'Rambo's creator has a doctorate in American literature. One of my influences is Henry James, whose major theme is awareness. Whether I'm writing about military personnel, law enforcement, or De Quincey, the persistent theme is paying attention in a hostile world.
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Of course I've enjoyed having the Nobel Prize, the prestige that goes along with it, the money that came with it in particular. I was the typical, still am to some extent, impecunious writer, just struggling to make ends meet, so that, nobody's going to deny that at all. In fact, if they want to give it to me a second time, I'm standing by, ready to receive it, but it's a problem, it's a real problem and then expectations and then you have monsters like Sani Abacha who come up from time to time and who would have died a happy man if he'd succeeded in hanging a Nobel Laureate for literature.
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If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea.
