William Arthur Ward Quotes
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.
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I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.
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Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
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I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.
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When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.
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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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I always work with 18 friends.
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And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.
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After things started to happen here, my choice of material was extremely limited. It was a weird situation.
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It is not about money. It is about how you treat the player.
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I didn't spend a lot of time with prison guards, but my father was an assistant district attorney for a long time so I was always hearing stories about prisoners and prison guards.
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Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.
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You might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances.
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There are no little things. "Little things," so called, are the hinges of the universe.
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Being spontaneous is a blessing.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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The wisdom of age is bitter when those you have failed have gone.
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We can be bitter about our handicaps or we can be happy about our blessings.
