Sophie McShera Quotes
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I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.
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Don't trust anyone over 30.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't believe that the bigger your platform is, the more people will pay attention.
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In 1955-56, Saint Joseph's won the first Big Five championship, compiled a 23-6 overall record, and entered its first postseason competition ever - the National Invitation Tournament - finishing third. That season's success seemed to vault St. Joe's into the national collegiate basketball scene, and it has been there since.
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It's continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.
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It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.
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But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.
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I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'
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I never want to make the quarterback feel like I'm being a distraction or I've got any negativity toward him.
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Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.
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I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair!
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I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.
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Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
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I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.
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Roy Acuff's from Maynardville, and that's where a lot of my family's from. So he's, I've been told, a distant cousin, as well.
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If people can't relate to something, there's no use of the song being there.
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The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.
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Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.
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People have always called me Schneider Monkey just because of my energy and mass consumption of bananas. Plus, I just love monkeys, so I thought, 'Well, I love monkeys, I love my fans, why not put the two together?'
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I love dressing up, though I have to hide my rubbish hair in a hat.
