Stephen Ambrose Quotes
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I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.
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I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.
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There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.
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We make our own whiskey and our own smoke, too. Ain't too many things these ole boys can't do.
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We wake and whisper awhile, But, the day gone by, Silence and sleep like fields Of amaranth lie.
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They do a lot of cutting, back screens and stuff like that. We weren't ready to handle the back screens and all the cuts. ... They are a well-coached team, and it shows.
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I work at my life and I cultivate myself and don't spend six hours in a gym. Some people would say I should but why?
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Great Time makes all things dim.
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We turn, three men bound by love, by history, by circumstance, and most certainly by the awful grace of God, and together walk a narrow lane where headstones press close all around, reminding me gently of Warren Redstone’s parting wisdom, which I understand now. The dead are never far from us. They’re in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.
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A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.
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Dreams are the language your heart speaks to help guide you to your destiny.
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So Am I' is about loving yourself, being different, being an outcast and not fitting in the format that society wants to put us in - just celebrating what really makes you different.
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I have little compassion for people in trailer parks who refuse to move after getting tornado warnings. How hard is it for them to relocate? Their houses have wheels.
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Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not difficult to write poems that are misunderstood. A drunk, a three-year-old-they are easily misunderstood. What is difficult is being clear and mysterious at the same time. The dramatic situation needs to be as clear in a poem as it is in a piece of good journalism. The why is part of the mystery, but the who, what, where, and when should all be understood.
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The novel that an author writes is often not the novel that the reader reads, and most of the 'messages' in a novel are put there by the reader. There's nothing wrong with that, of course. That's how literature functions.
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I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
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Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.
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Art destroys silence.
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Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating.
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Parents want their kids’ approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents’ approval.
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I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.
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In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place.
