Harold Ross Quotes
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.
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You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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I don't know how much the other fighters make. But I need to tell you that, for myself, money is not the first consideration.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.
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For me, fitness is not just about hitting the gym; it is also about an inner happiness and an overall well-being.
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What you present as the gospel will determine what you present as discipleship. If you present as the gospel what is essentially a theory of the atonement, and you say, 'If you accept this theory of the atonement, your sins are forgiven, and when you die you will be received into heaven,' there is no basis for discipleship.
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History has proved that dictators can't last forever.
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Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.
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I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.
