Thomas Dewar Quotes
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
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Age, like distance lends a double charm.
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I want to shape the TV screen canvas
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Long hours of labour seem to be the secret of the rational and healthful processes, which are to raise the condition of the labourer by an improvement of his mental and moral powers and to make a rational consumer out of him.
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And so to bed.
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There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
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The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
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Æschylus: High thoughts must have high language. (rewritten and embellished tr. Fitts 1955, p. 108)
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The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.
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But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?
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Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.
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I don't think business news is just for old white men with money.
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Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.
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Nastiness and mockery and meanness sometimes seem as if they're spreading like a contagion.
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I cried most days working on the first draft. The last scenes were the hardest. I had a feeling where I wanted to end - the exact note - but I couldn't see how to get there. Sarah Murphy, my editor, asked the right questions to help me. I think of 'The Bear' as a hopeful book.
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I think, with age, you learn that it comes in bursts and you've got no control over it. I'm not one of those people who says, 'I've got to write a song every day.' I just store up ideas, and really I have to wait until it finds me; I know when I'm ready to write. It used to frustrate me, but it doesn't any more. It's just how it is.
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I don't want to be identified by any one role I do.
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No wife can endure a gambling husband-unless he is a steady winner.
