Saunders Teddell (Sonny Terry) Quotes
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Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.
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For you, a thousand times over.
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The poet creates it; the people by recitation recreate it. Poet and reader (hearer) are moments of the same reality.
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In any case, if you ever leave me with a handsome man, do not tell me that you trust me because, let me warn you: that is not what will prevent me from deceiving you, if I want to. On the contrary.
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This hiatus coming up I'm looking at a comedy because I need the balance.
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Theatre gives me a different high.
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Taking over our own business and running it ourselves has tied us even more to our fans.
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I am really proud of what I have done for cancer awareness, but do I feel like Bono? No.
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I wrote and drew my own books on notebook paper, and I'd staple 'em together. I had my own fictional company, and we had our own thinly veiled offshoots of whatever was popular at Marvel and DC at the time.
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The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster refused to buy Netflix for a mere fifty million dollars; Excite turned down the chance to acquire Google for less than a million dollars.
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If you can have a really good coaching staff, and you can have a really good young quarterback and do a really good job in player personnel and string together multiple successful drafts, your window is not small in the NFL because of the quarterback.
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I'm Asian, so they assumed I'm not an American and that I come from Japan. Restaurants would refuse to serve me, and places would refuse to give you a haircut.
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Like anyone, you could love someone, and it doesn't mean that you're equipped or you were taught or have the patience or the love or the wherewithal to be a good parent. One has nothing to do with the other.
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I have the soul of a director.
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I like a novel to have a certain amount of dead time and filler - unremarkable scenery, descriptions of getting from point A to point B, dialogue in which not much is said - in between the parts that are electric. With a long work that you don't read in one sitting, I think that makes for the best reading experience.
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We writers of series fiction tend to idealize ourselves in our characters, giving them attributes we wish we possessed and ever more interesting lives.
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The British have chosen liberty with Brexit and can congratulate themselves every day.
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And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode, or what employment He has for me there, I know not, for I cannot think He is taking me there to live and lurk only.
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It's Elder who's my safe place. Elder's my home.
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Painting and illustration cannot be mixed—one cannot merge from one into the other.
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All conflict we experience in the world, is a conflict within our own selves.
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He was a nice guy, middle-aged, a little tired, like most doctors usually seemed to be, but he just nodded and said, "Let me take a look at him. Shane?" "I'm not dropping my pants," Shane said. "I just thought I'd say that up front.
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If you've got a good vibrato, you can get away with a lot.
