R. A. Torrey Quotes
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
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I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.
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I was honored to have served in the Army for my country. I was at Anzio during WWII, and it makes you realize how very precious life is.
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The simple idiot's advice I give to screenwriters who say they want to sell a screenplay is, 'Write good.'
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I have a real problem giving up that kind of control. You know, my mother helps me.
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Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
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As soon as I am able to talk about it I will.
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The life of entire surrender is a joyous life all along the way.
