William Arthur Ward Quotes
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I draw and play the piano badly. But when I'm doing those things, I'm concentrating so hard there's no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.
Eddie Redmayne
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Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.
Ice T
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
Nas
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
Walter Kirn
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I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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After the 'Grey Album,' everyone thought of me as the hip-hop guy, the remix maestro. I didn't know how to show them otherwise.
Danger Mouse
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When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.
Barbara Mandrell
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If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.
Venus Williams
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This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.
Florence Kelley
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I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.
Nancy Pickard
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When I was little, I had concerts on the subway, and old ladies came up to me like, 'You are so good!'
Zara Larsson
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Heckles always vary. I mean, some people are just drunk, and it's nonsense, or, you know, some people just want to just repeat something I've said or add their own two cents about an opinion, but because of the nature of what I do and who I am, like, I also get the racist stuff, which is hard.
Hari Kondabolu
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In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.
Karen DeCrow
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The harder you work, the less mistakes you make. The fewer mistakes you make, the better your chances of winning.
Ara Parseghian
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I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince. How about that?
Roy Blount, Jr.
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I had a chance to choose a couple different places and, well, I grew up - I was a small-town kid from Illinois, so No. 1, just trying to win a championship for my home state.
Ben Zobrist
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You will never be greater than the thoughts that dominate your mind.
Napoleon Hill
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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
William Arthur Ward
