Norman Douglas (George Norman Douglas) Quotes
One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don't carry around rifles with them; they keep them at home or at the range.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
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It took years for me to figure out what my body needs and that what works for my friends doesn't necessarily work for me. Doing yoga five times a week has transformed my body.
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A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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They were all interested in what I was going to do, because I'd never worked in televsion before.
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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
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I've got a great eye for color. I'm like a chick.
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I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
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I have always been a pretty big fan of ghost stories.
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Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.
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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy.
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I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully.
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Hopefully, one day people will be able to look at Mumford & Sons and say, 'that's a career band.' It's all about time instead of sales.
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To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
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I don't think I ever saw acting as an actual career until late.
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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
