Orville Wright Quotes
Before leaving for our camp at Kitty Hawk we tested the chain drive for the propellers in our shop at Dayton, and found it satisfactory.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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I've directed independent film.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
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I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
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Every inch of my writing career has been influenced by my screenwriting education. I was lucky enough to go to film school at USC, and I got a crash course in how to tell a story efficiently. I learned structure, pace, my style, how to know your audience, and most importantly, how to take criticism and edits properly.
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I'm not really a food connoisseur.
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I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
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My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.
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If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon her people, I wonder if she would have avoided befriending the English or not.
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Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people's participation and E for equality.
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I made bad decisions. That being said - the question is, does the public care about that?
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I write from this tight third-person viewpoint, where each chapter is seen through the eyes of one individual character. When I'm writing that character, I become that character and identify with that character.
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Unfettered free trade has led to a disaster.
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I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.
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It's the ability to resist failure, in many ways, or use failure that often leads to the greatest success, isn't it?
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If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.
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Before leaving for our camp at Kitty Hawk we tested the chain drive for the propellers in our shop at Dayton, and found it satisfactory.
