C. V. Wedgwood Quotes
For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source from which example and precept can still be drawn.
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
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I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.
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Society becomes how we behave.
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I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them.
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I always like jumping spiders. They're just so darn cute.
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When you put a lot of hard work into one goal and you achieve it, that's a really good feeling.
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Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.
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For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source from which example and precept can still be drawn.
