Rose Tremain Quotes
Music is so important in a human life. It finds a space inside us that nothing else touches.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
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Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.
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I'm pretty goofy. I really do like to sing and dance in real life. I'm a rhythmic person. I love comedy; I love making people laugh. That's my brand.
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I've always shied away from online data storage. I don't even use my employers' network drives for anything sensitive. I want to control access myself.
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Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're there - and that presence makes people feel secure.
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Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.
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It must have been fascinating for Bono to have Johnny Cash do a cover of his song, and hear how he translates the words that he has used. And it would be fascinating to see a great director do his take on my work.
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I … started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out.
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The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the Government, the sovereign power.
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How commentators each dark passage shun,And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
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I wish I had a family. In the future I´ll try to figure out how to dedicate more time to my personal life, and yes, maybe think about a family, kids, comes an age when the body asks for it.5
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I just do what I do. It's not something that should be revered as something that's great.
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An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.
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Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.
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In 1965, I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India, and I saw starvation, death, people dying of hunger, for the first time. It changed my life. I came back home, told my mother, 'I'd like to live and work in a village.' Mother went into a coma.
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There is nothing unhealthy about educating youngsters about nutrition.
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But no matter how many times we re-rank the presidents, in another 200 years, the top presidents will still be Washington and Lincoln and Jefferson, because they defined what a president is. They are the idea, and you can't be better than the idea.
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Music is so important in a human life. It finds a space inside us that nothing else touches.
