Siegfried Sassoon Quotes
Life for the majority of the population. Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds. Culminating in a cheap funeral.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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I get to go to all these beautiful places, so it's nice being able to take pictures of it.
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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.
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Composing's not voluntary, you know. There's no choice, you're not free. You're landed with an idea and you have responsibility to that idea.
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It's the same old tune, fiddle and guitar.Where do we take it from here?Rhinestone suits and new shiny cars;We've been the same way for years.We need to change.
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And I stare at the phone, he still hasn't called.And then you feel so low you can't feel nothing at all.And you flash back to when he said forever and always.Oh, and it rains in your bedroom,Everything is wrong.It rains when you're here and it rains when you're gone.'Cause I was there when you said forever and always.
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And me I'm in the bathroomcrying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a manwhen you're scared, just like a little kid.
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Dirán que andas por un camino equivocado, si andas por tu camino.
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Reason is lost reasoning.
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That's one thing you Americans take for granted, you know? That you can grow up, you know, not so good circumstances, and you can move. Just because you are born in rural Arkansas, whatever, that doesn't define who you are.
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There were days when I was on the last $10 in my account, and I was freaking out about paying rent or buying groceries. Then you book a commercial, and you're good for another three months.
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There are a lot of good writers in TV!
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I was always the serious kid.
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You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.
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I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
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I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.
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It was a marriage of convenience, as my father had a blister on his big toe and couldn't travel far to find a girl.
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That's why the American Recovery & Reinvestment Plan won't just throw money at our problems, we'll invest in what works
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Life for the majority of the population. Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds. Culminating in a cheap funeral.
