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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I left the Pumpkins in 2010, and I just took a year off to hang with my family and be with my daughter and my son and my wife, and just get acclimatised to being off the road. Then I started looking at what was going to be the next part of my career/legacy, whatever you want to call it.
Jimmy Chamberlin
The Smashing Pumpkins
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Either you fight for everybody, or you're really just fighting for yourself and people like you.
Jason Winston George
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Age is just a number, and I know so many women who look fabulous at 40, 50 and 60 so it doesn't scare me. It's inevitable - I will get older, and the wrinkles will come, but I'm not that bothered.
Louise Nurding
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The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity--hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory--because at the Father's will Jesus became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross.
J. I. Packer
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I have to warn you, I'm not just some sitcom guy. I'm now an author.
Bob Newhart
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The profoundest order is revealed in what is most casual.
Fairfield Porter
