Stevie Smith Quotes
Christianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church need never be lonely.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
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If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that's not setting a good example. The responsibility that I have kids inside my household has made me realize now that I have to be an example.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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In 'Haraamkhor,' I have explored a few things which I wouldn't have been able to do in bigger films. The process of shooting this film was so organic that it enhanced me as an actor and an artiste.
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Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.
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I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
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I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.
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I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
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It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.
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It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity - of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.
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Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.
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Most of the time I play heroes, guys who don't have an edge.
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I spend long days wearing a corset - but no pain, no gain.
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What a horrible system we had. How blind we were.
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I remember writing lyrics for 'Take Me to Church' for a long time before I even had a song in mind for. It's not that I was trying to write that song for a year, but sometimes you just kind of collect lyrical and musical ideas and don't actually complete the song until you feel like they work together and have a home.
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Maybe all that silence about my brother did something to me. I think it did. Not talking can make a guy pretty lonely.
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Christianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church need never be lonely.
