William Arthur Ward Quotes
Success never resides in the world of weak wishes, but in the palace of purposeful plans and prayerful persistence.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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Being Human clothing was first launched in France, Belgium and Spain, where the brand's philosophy of look good, do good is connecting with people and not just Salman Khan.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
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The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.
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Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
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The story man must see clearly in his own mind how every piece of business will be put over. He should feel every expression, every reaction. He get far enough from his story to take a second look at it... to see whether there is any dead phase... to see whether the personalities are going to be interesting and appealing to the audience. He should also try to see that the things that his characters are doing are of an interesting nature.
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Thirty was a big deal for me. It was the age where I reevaluated everything - how I approached life and how I thought about myself. When I look at my 20s, or when I look at any period in my life, I think about how much time I've wasted trying to find the right man.
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The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.
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Success never resides in the world of weak wishes, but in the palace of purposeful plans and prayerful persistence.
