Malcolm Cowley Quotes
It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child, while not being loved as a child is loved, but merely being kept alive against one's will.
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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Social interactions have always been a bit of a difficult thing for me. I think I have a natural tendency to make people not 100 percent super comfortable.
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There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.
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Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.
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'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
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Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.
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After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.
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If I had my way, the woman I marry, she wouldn't be a part of Twitter and she wouldn't be on Facebook.
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Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it's easy to do, but it has to be done very, very carefully, or else you risk losing the audience's trust.
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With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.
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Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.
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I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.
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Boxing combines, in perfect proportion, strength, speed, and endurance. Normally, most sports are either about one of the three: either about speed or endurance or strength. Boxing combines all three of them. It's really intense.
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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
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Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.
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A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines
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When I was a child, kids used to make fun of me because I was blind. But I just became more curious, 'How can I climb this tree and get an apple for this girl?' That's what mattered to me.
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Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.
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True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child, while not being loved as a child is loved, but merely being kept alive against one's will.
