Fairfield Porter Quotes
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My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.
Pat Conroy
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I miss my family and friends from Cali a lot. I also miss late-night business hours, hiking in the Sierra Nevada, and house boating in Gold Country. But in Ohio, housing is cheaper, everything is green year-round, and we get glorious thunderstorms. In California, I lived in a place that was infested with black widow spiders.
Rae Carson
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
Carli Lloyd
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It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
Barney Ross
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When the facts are on your side, there is huge power in pitching with questions. Because questions are active rather than passive. They necessitate a response.
Dan Pink
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Until now, I've not done a project where the produce, rapper and singer has never worked together like this before, and I had a chance to try a variety of styles.
Namie Amuro
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We were too light, Electra. Now our feet press down in the earth like the wheels of a cart in its groove. Come with me, and we will walk heavily, bending under the weight of our heavy load.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Bands always call me when they are in need of a boost and I come in and put them back on top.
Nile Rodgers
Chic
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A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
Bobby Bowden
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What makes 'American Pie' so unusual is that it isn't a relic from the counterculture but a talisman, which, like a sacred river, keeps bringing joy to listeners everywhere. When 'American Pie' suddenly is played on a jukebox or radio, it's almost impossible not to sing along.
Douglas Brinkley
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The amount of things I want to tweet that I get talked out of? It's probably four times a week. I'm very hotheaded.
Khloe Kardashian
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My father was the nurturing one, the one who always made sure my sister and I ate properly and that our hair was brushed... He really took care of the logistics of our upbringing.
Kenza Fourati
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Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.
Mark Hopkins
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I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature.
Jacqueline Susann
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He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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If I were a Negro, I'd be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I'd rather go down with my flag flying. If you're weak or crippled, or you can't speak out or fight back in some way, then people don't hesitate to treat you badly.
Abraham Maslow
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The profoundest order is revealed in what is most casual.
Fairfield Porter
